Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With premeditation; after previous deliberation; intentionally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With premeditation.
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- adverb With
premeditation .
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Examples
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Umbra compares his mother to an army who premeditately rape and killed children (post #179).
Think Progress » White House Accuses Clinton of Sending ‘Flowers and Chocolates’ To Kim Jong-il 2006
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God would have created the world extempore, in a moment, but was pleased (as I may say) to make it premeditately, in a set method of six days, not for his own ease, but our instruction, that our heads and hearts might the better keep pace with his hands, to behold and consider his workmanship.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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He had drawn his rations and those of the two young natives separately from the men's mess the week before this, on the plea that they did not obtain their fair share; he was thus premeditately preparing for his clandestine departure, foreseeing that on the Saturday, when rations were issued, he could thus obtain a week's provisions in advance, without suspicion.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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That is the crime of the guilty wretch who for some diabolical purpose premeditately, viciously, and willfully, violates theath he is about to take -- An oath itself being an affirmation or denial by any christian of any thing lawful and honest before one that hath authority to administer the same for the advancement of truth, solemnly invoking and calling God to witness that what he so deposes is true.
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'Tis plain she went off with another man, and to all appearances premeditately, as her maid and her riches bore her company.
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But when the fear and the evil feared come on together, and press at once upon us, deliberation itself is ruinous, which saves upon all other occasions; because, when perils are instant, it delays decision: the man is in a flutter, and in a hurry, and his judgment is gone, -- as the judgment of the deposed King of France and his ministers was gone, if the latter did not premeditately betray him.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Accordingly, in all the number of laws passed with regard to the plantations, the words which distinguish revenue laws specifically as such were, I think, premeditately avoided.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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He who sings premeditately, shews he has learn'd his Lesson at Home.
Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692
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He had drawn his rations and those of the two young natives separately from the men’s mess the week before this, on the plea that they did not obtain their fair share; he was thus premeditately preparing for his clandestine departure, foreseeing that on the Saturday, when rations were issued, he could thus obtain a week’s provisions in advance, without suspicion.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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Person shall wilfully or premeditately be guilty of Blasphemy, and shall thereof be legally convicted, the Person so offending shall, for every such Offence, be set in the Pillory for the space of Two Hours, and be branded on his or her Foreshead with the letter B, and be publickly whipt, on his or her bare Back, with Thirty nine Lashes _well laid on_. "
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various
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