The Collaborative International Dictionary
Premeditate \Pre*med"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Premeditated (-t[=a]`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Premeditating.] [L. praemeditatus, p. p. of praemeditari; prae before + meditari to meditate. See Meditate.] To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery.
With words premeditated thus he said.
--Dryden.
Premeditate \Pre*med"i*tate\, v. i. To think, consider, deliberate, or revolve in the mind, beforehand.
Premeditate \Pre*med"i*tate\, a. [L. praemeditatus, p. p.]
Premeditated; deliberate. [Archaic]
--Bp. Burnet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, from pre- + meditate, or a back formation from premeditation, or else from Latin praemeditatus, past participle of praemeditari "to think over." Related: Premeditated; premeditating.
Wiktionary
vb. to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand
WordNet
v. consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand; "premeditated murder"
think or reflect beforehand or in advance; "I rarely premeditate, which is a mistake"
Usage examples of "premeditate".
The honorable bankrupt overtaken by misfortune is then master of the situation, and proceeds to legalize the theft he premeditated.
I bought a paper, and consigned its undeclared treaties, its premeditated murders and unfought battles to an ash can.
Had he committed murder, premeditated and done with unrepented malice?
And if properly carried out, a honeysuck massacre left very little evidence to indicate that it was a premeditated attack.
At him Leblanc fired also, wounding him slightly in the thigh, but no more, so that he escaped to tell the tale of what he and every other native for miles round considered a wanton and premeditated murder.
It was such a shock that I had no strength to ask her any of the questions I had premeditated.
I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt.
The Representative Duputz, a few hours later, received from our hands a duplicate of the decree, with the charge to take it himself to the Conciergerie as soon as the surprise which we premeditated upon the Prefecture of Police and the Hotel de Ville should have succeeded.
The equivocation was innocent because it was not premeditated, for if I had thought it over I should never have said such a thing.
Besides, there is noking, be his cause never so spotless, if it come tothe arbitrement of swords, can try it out with allunspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on themthe guilt of premeditated and contrived murder.
My interpretation is that under Atrian law, murder need not be premeditated, but is defined simply and explicitly as the taking of one or more Atrian lives, by any means whatsoever, with or without motive or preknowledge.
I was in the Science Library, digging something out of the Encyclopedia Britannica, when she appeared beside me and placed on the open page an evidently premeditated thin envelope, bulgingly confessing the coins within.
A brant-fox, full of sly iniquity, That in the grove had lived two years, or three, Now by a fine premeditated plot That same night, breaking through the hedge, had got Into the yard where Chanticleer the fair Was wont, and all his wives too, to repair.
Therefore, your claim is disallowed, on the grounds that the charge is not premeditated murder.
Not that the canned laughter had got any more real: It was the real laughter that had gone tinny, premeditated.