Noah Webster
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.]