Word Meanings - PREMEDITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.

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• MEDITATIVE
  Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. -- Med"i*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Med"i*ta*tive*ness, n.
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• MEDITATE
  To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2.
• MEDITATIST
  One who is given to meditation.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• CONTRIVABLE
  Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised. A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable. Bp. Wilkins.
• CONTRIVE
  To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• MEDITATION
  1. The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. Ps. xix. 14.
• PREVIOUSLY
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• DELIBERATION
  1. The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection. Choosing the fairest way with a calm deliberation. W. Montagu. 2. Careful discussion and examination
• FORETHOUGHTFUL
  Having forethought.
• CONTRIVEMENT
  Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.
• CONTRIVANCE
  1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented,
• PREVIOUS
  Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under
• PREMEDITATION
  The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.
• PRECONTRIVE
  To contrive or plan beforehand.
• PREMEDITATE
  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.
• PREMEDITATELY
  With premeditation. Burke.
• AFORETHOUGHT
  Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.