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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prepense.

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  • It is true that our law hath made a more subtle distinction between the will inflamed and the will advised, between manslaughter in heat and murder upon prepensed malice or cold blood, as the soldiers call it; an indulgence not unfit for a choleric and warlike nation; for it is true, _ira_

    The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

  • ¶ And whan I had thus long prepensed in my mynde what thynge I myght best chose out: non offred it selfe more conue - nyent to the profyte of yonge studentes

    The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528

  • In a Federation starship’s computer systems, the prefix code is a security passcode prepensed to computer commands to prevent unauthorized activation or control of key systems Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

    Miracle Workers Keith R.A. DeCandido 2001

  • In a Federation starship’s computer systems, the prefix code is a security passcode prepensed to computer commands to prevent unauthorized activation or control of key systems Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

    Miracle Workers Keith R.A. DeCandido 2001

  • In a Federation starship’s computer systems, the prefix code is a security passcode prepensed to computer commands to prevent unauthorized activation or control of key systems Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

    Miracle Workers Keith R.A. DeCandido 2001

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