prepense
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.
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Adjective[edit]
prepense
- Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
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Verb[edit]
prepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:
- All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].
- (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.
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