pre·pense (pr -p ns )adj. Contemplated or arranged in advance; premeditated: malice prepense.
[From Middle English, past participle of purpensen, to premeditate, from Anglo-Norman purpenser : pur-, before (from Latin pro-; see pro-1) + penser, to think (from Latin p ns re; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots).]
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prepense [prɪˈpɛns]adj (Law) (postpositive) (usually in legal contexts) arranged in advance; premeditated (esp in the phrase malice prepense) [from Anglo-Norman purpensé, from Old French purpenser to consider in advance, from penser to think, from Latin pēnsāre to weigh, consider]
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| That is, it had been splendid at first; but later the fun went out of it because we found that Peter was, of malice prepense, allowing himself to be caught too easily, in order that he might have the pleasure of catching Felicity--which he never failed to do, no matter how tightly his eyes were bound. ' he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog, a sort of lurcher, half mastiff, half greyhound, which ran limping about as if with the purpose of seconding his master in collecting the refractory grunters; but which, in fact, from misapprehension of the swine-herd's signals, ignorance of his own duty, or malice prepense, only drove them hither and thither, and increased the evil which he seemed to design to remedy. To do her justice, she really believed Anne had made Diana drunk out of sheer malice prepense,? |