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prepense

ADJ ที่ ไตร่ตรอง ไว้ ล่วงหน้า  ที่ วางแผน ไว้ ล่วงหน้า  มี เจตนา  premeditated ti-tri-trong-wai-luang-na

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PREPENSE

a.prepens'. [L. proepensus, proependeo; proe and pendeo, to incline to hand down. ] Preconceived; premeditated; aforethought.
Malice prepense is necessary to constitute murder.

 

PREPENSE

v.t.prepens'. [supra. ] To weigh or consider beforehand. [Not used. ]

 

PREPENSE

v.i.prepens'. To deliberate beforehand. [Not used. ]

 

PREPENSED

pp. or a.Previously conceived; premeditated. [Little used. ] [See Prepense. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PREPENSE

Pre *pense ", v. t. Etym: [Pref. pre + F. penser to think. See Pansy. ]

 

Defn: To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate. [Obs. ] Spenser. Sir T. Elyot.

 

PREPENSE

PREPENSE Pre *pense ", v. i.

 

Defn: To deliberate beforehand. [Obs. ]

 

PREPENSE

Pre *pense ", a. Etym: [See Pansy, and cf. Prepense, v. t.]

 

Defn: Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense. This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense. Southey.

 

PREPENSELY

PREPENSELY Pre *pense "ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a premeditated manner.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

prepense

pre pense |priˈpens priˈpɛns | ▶adjective [ usu. postpositive ] dated, chiefly Law deliberate; intentional: malice prepense. DERIVATIVES pre pense ly adverb ORIGIN early 18th cent.: alteration of prepensed, past participle of obsolete prepense, from Old French purpenser, from por- ‘beforehand ’ + penser ‘think. ’ The prefix pre- was substituted to emphasize the notion of ‘beforehand. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

prepense

prepense |prɪˈpɛns | ▶adjective [ usu. postpositive ] chiefly Law, dated deliberate; intentional: malice prepense. DERIVATIVES prepensely adverb ORIGIN early 18th cent.: alteration of prepensed, past participle of obsolete prepense, from Old French purpenser, from por- ‘beforehand ’ + penser ‘think ’. The prefix pre- was substituted to emphasize the notion of ‘beforehand ’.