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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Planned or intended beforehand; premeditated.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Thought of beforehand; premeditated; prepense: used in law.
  • noun Premeditation; forethought.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Premeditation.
  • adjective Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Premeditated; planned ahead of time.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective planned in advance

Etymologies

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From afore- +‎ thought.

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