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Prepense


PREPENSE, adjective prepens'. [Latin proepensus, proependeo; proe and pendeo, to incline to hand down.]

Preconceived; premeditated; aforethought.

Malice prepense is necessary to constitute murder.

PREPENSE, verb transitive prepens'. [supra.]

To weigh or consider beforehand. [Not used.]

PREPENSE, verb intransitive prepens'. To deliberate beforehand. [Not used.]