prepense

prepense

English

Etymology

Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈpɛns/

Adjective

prepense

1. Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

See also

• malice prepense

Verb

prepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to consider.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:

     submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. Elyot to this entry?)

2. (intransitive) To deliberate beforehand.