prepense

• Far be it from us to say that a great man must needs with benevolence prepense, become a 'friend of humanity;' nay, that such professional self-conscious friends are not the fatalest kind of persons to be met with in our day. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5
• He would not have forgotten by July, 1816, circumstances of great import which had taken place in December, 1815: and he's either lying of malice prepense or telling "an ower true tale j] {40 the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift; For it becomes the telescope of truth, And shows us all things naked as they are_.--[MS 51] [Compare Who loves, raves--'tis youth's frenzy--but the cure Is bitterer still, as charm by charm unwinds Which robed our idols, and we see too sure Nor Worth nor Beauty dwells from out the mind's Ideal shape of such Childe Harold_, Canto IV. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
• If it is an affair of malice prepense, there will be war, for the laws of England require war if blood royal be spilt The Consul Pasqualigo looked very grave; then, withdrawing his lips for a moment from his amber mouthpiece, he observed, 'It is a crisis It will be a crisis,' said Barizy of the Tower, excited by finding his rival a listener, 'but not for a long time. —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
• The odds at Tattersall's would be twelve to one that sundry busy-bodies, booksellers or otherwise, would scrape together with malice prepense, and keep câchet for future print, a multitude of careless scrawls that should have been burnt within an hour of the reading. —  An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
• It is not justifiable; but yet it is far less criminal and less severely punished than when committed in cold blood, or, as the law terms it, with malice prepense or aforethought. —  Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence

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