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premeditated
/pɹiˈmɛdəˌteɪtɪd/
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What does premeditated mean?
verb
- simple past and past participle of premeditate
adjective
- Planned, considered, or estimated in advance; deliberate.
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IPA pronunciation
/pɹiˈmɛdəˌteɪtɪd/
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The premeditated human contrivance of the nose-ring was too cunning for impulsive brute force, and the creature flinched.
From Fort Watson to the lower bridge, he had not advanced more than forty miles on his premeditated route to join Doyle.
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This was a genuine premeditated charge, as opposed to a blind rush, and it is offered as a good example of the sort.
In short, a whole province was, by the common usage, at once brought to a course nothing inferior in undauntedness to the most studied and premeditated resolution.
We must ask whether the witness’s impression was that an attack was dangerous, a threat serious, a blackmail conceivable, a brawl intentional, a gesture insulting, an assault premeditated.