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Webster 1913 Edition

Prepense

Pre-pense′

,
Verb.
T.
[Pref.
pre
+ F.
penser
to think. See
Pansy
.]
To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate.
[Obs.]
Spenser. Sir T. Elyot.

Pre-pense′

,
Verb.
I.
To deliberate beforehand.
[Obs.]

Pre-pense′

,
Adj.
[See
Pansy
, and cf.
Prepense
,
Verb.
T.
]
Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; – usually placed after the word it qualifies;
as, malice
prepense
.
This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error
prepense
.
Southey.

Webster 1828 Edition

Prepense

PREPENSE

,
Adj.
prepens'. [L. proepensus, proependeo; proe and pendeo, to incline to hand down.]
Preconceived; premeditated; aforethought.
Malice prepense is necessary to constitute murder.

PREPENSE

,
Verb.
T.
prepens'. [supra.]
To weigh or consider beforehand. [Not used.]

PREPENSE

,
Verb.
I.
prepens'. To deliberate beforehand. [Not used.]

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