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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aforethought
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with malice aforethought
▪ It is appalling with malice aforethought.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Involuntary manslaughter is unlawful homicide without malice aforethought.
▪ It is appalling with malice aforethought.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aforethought

Aforethought \A*fore"thought`\, a. Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.
--Bouvier.

Aforethought

Aforethought \A*fore"thought`\, n. Premeditation.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aforethought

1580s, from afore + past tense of think. Apparently an English loan-translation of Old French legalese word prepense (see prepense) in malice prepense "malice aforethought" (Coke).

Wiktionary
aforethought

a. premeditated; planned ahead of time.

WordNet
aforethought

adj. planned in advance; "with malice aforethought" [syn: aforethought(ip), planned, plotted]

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Usage examples of "aforethought".

With bent filth it was all about baiting the trap and making sure you grabbed the fucker painfully and with malice aforethought by their gonads, therefore ensuring their full and frank cooperation.

I told her unsparingly that Steffani had seduced and abandoned her of malice aforethought, and that she ought to think of him only to be revenged of his perfidy.

Chaldean architects knew the effect to be gained by spacing the Holy of Holies at a distance from the temple pylae, and the Cro-Magnard magicians with malice aforethought painted their marvelous animal scenes only in the most inaccessible crannies of their limestone caves.

Cookie herself as the third person who had joined ita fact which the melancholy waiter, doubtless with malice aforethought, had carefully refrained from pointing out to him.

That they did so set about destroying their enemies, wilfully, maliciously, and with malice prepense and aforethought, is susceptible of proof as conclusive as that which in a criminal court sends murderers to the gallows.

With malice aforethought Matern, at nine forty-five, walks into the asymmetrical church of St.

At twenty-eight, living off book reviews and social security, pale and thin and interestingly dissolute, most typically to be seen wearing a col-larless white shirt and jeans tucked into misshapen brown bootslooking like the kind of ex-public-schoolboy who, perhaps, did some drug-impaired carpentering or gardening for the good and the great with his fiery politics and his riveting love affairs in which he was usually the crueller, Richard Tull published his first novel, Aforethought, in Britain and America.

IQ, then the verdict on Aforethought was as follows: nobody understood it, or even finished it, but, equally, nobody was sure it was shit.

That Lizzie Andrew Borden of Fall River, in the county of Bristol, at Fall River in the county of Bristol, on the fourth day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, in and upon one Andrew Jackson Borden, feloniously, willfully and of her malice aforethought, an assault did make, and with a certain weapon, to wit, a sharp cutting instrument, the name and a more particular description of which is to the Jurors unknown, him, the said Andrew Jackson Borden feloniously, willfully and of her malice aforethought did strike, cutting, beating and bruising, in and upon the head of him, the said Andrew Jackson Borden, divers, to wit, ten mortal wounds, of which said mortal wounds the said Andrew Jackson Borden then and there instantly died.

That was on the low side, even for a merchie, but not unheard of for a skipper with worn drive nodes, and Honor had chosen it with malice aforethought.

It will now be useful to take up malicious mischief, and to compare the malice required to constitute that offence with the malice aforethought of murder.

I'm certain that paraboloidal jib uses the Venturi effect with malice aforethought.

NaCl) without thereafter propelling said same household sodium chloride over and above left shoulder despite supplies of same being freely available, to the furtherance of the Devil's works, and, farther, did, in the presence of several God-fearing witnesses, good men and true, with malice aforethought open an umbrella within a household, as defined by the Household (Definition) Act of the Year of Our Lord .