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premeditated

[ pri-med-i-tey-tid ]

adjective

  1. done deliberately; planned in advance:

    a premeditated murder.



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Other Words From

  • pre·medi·tated·ly adverb
  • unpre·medi·tated adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of premeditated1

First recorded in 1580–90; pre- + meditate + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

Nor was the premeditated massacre of 38 people asphyxiated in the back of a police van.

Obama wanted to assume the moral responsibility for what were in effect premeditated government executions.

But there is also little doubt that the Obama campaign has proven far more premeditated and adept when it comes to its media buys.

“We do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned,” Rice said.

Was the attack a premeditated act targeting the ambassador and carefully timed to coincide with the 11th anniversary of 9/11?

Apparently it had not been premeditated, for the parties were fighting with sticks and stones, as well as swords and fire-arms.

The hope of gaining the crown was not the result of a premeditated plan in the minds of the restless Guises.

Indeed, in the succeeding quiet and the mildness of his voice, there was almost a premeditated cunning.

Murdered under official sanction, in accordance with premeditated design.

He had premeditated the shipwreck; the proofs were the preparations discovered in the haunted house.

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