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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
premeditated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
premeditated murder (=planned before it happens)
▪ He was charged with premeditated murder.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
murder
▪ The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a premeditated murder
▪ The defense claim that the killing was not premeditated.
▪ The maximum penalty for premeditated murder is death or life imprisonment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It appears that we are confronted by premeditated aggression....
▪ It is not really necessary to locate the degree of premeditated dishonesty involved in the politics of policy formulation.
▪ Less forgiving souls would call it a premeditated felony.
▪ The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.
▪ They were neither premeditated nor authorised.
▪ Very much a premeditated crime, Watson!
▪ Whatever else persuaded MacDonald to head a National Government, it was not premeditated ambition.
▪ Workman called it the most premeditated form of murder there is.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Premeditated

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.

Wiktionary
premeditated
  1. planned, considered or estimated in advance; deliberate. v

  2. (en-past of: premeditate)

WordNet
premeditated

adj. characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning; "a premeditated crime" [ant: unpremeditated]

Usage examples of "premeditated".

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.