premeditate

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praemeditātus, past participle of praemeditor (“I premeditate”). By surface analysis, pre- +‎ meditate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /priːˈmɛdɪteɪt/

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Verb

premeditate (third-person singular simple present premeditates, present participle premeditating, simple past and past participle premeditated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand.
   • 1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC, page 331:

     [I]ndeed I began ſincerely to hate my ſelf for a Dog, a VVretch that had been a Thief, and a Murtherer; […] I vvent about vvith my Heart full of theſe Thoughts, little better than a diſtracted Fellovv; in ſhort, running headlong into the dreadfulleſt Deſpair, and premeditated nothing but hovv to rid my ſelf out of the VVorld; […] nothing lay upon my Mind for ſeveral Days, but to ſhoot my ſelf into the Head vvith my Piſtol.

Related terms

• premeditating
• premeditated
• premeditation

Translations

to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand

• Bulgarian: обмислям предварително (obmisljam predvaritelno)
• Dutch: van tevoren bedenken
• German: vorsätzlich planen, vorher überlegen, im Vorhinein planen, im Vorhinein überlegen, vorher bedenken
• Polish: obmyślać z góry impf, obmyślić z góry pf, planować naprzód impf, zaplanować naprzód pf

See also

• deliberate

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

premeditate f

1. feminine plural of premeditato

Participle

premeditate f pl

1. feminine plural of premeditato

Etymology 2

Verb

premeditate

1. inflection of premeditare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Spanish

Verb

premeditate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of premeditar combined with te