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Definition: PREPENSE |
PREPENSEIntransitive verb1. To deliberate beforehand. Transitive verb1. Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense. 2. To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate. |
Date "PREPENSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Prepense (2 syl.). Malice prepense is malice designed or before deliberated. (Latin, præ pensus.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intention | Adjective: intended; Verb: intentional, advised, express, determinate; prepense; bound for; intending; Verb: minded; bent upon; (earnest); at stake; on the anvil, on the tapis; in view, in prospect, in the breast of; in petto; teleological |
Malevolence | Noun: malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity; hate; malignity; malice, malice prepense; maliciousness; Adjective: spite, despite; resentment. |
Predetermination | Adjective: prepense, premeditated; Verb:, predesignated, predesigned; advised, studied, designed, calculated; aforethought; intended; foregone. |
Will | Minded; (willing); prepense; (predetermined); intended; autocratic; unbidden; (bid; ); spontaneous; original; (casual); unconstrained. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expressions using "PREPENSE": Malice prepense ♦ of malice prepense ♦ with malice prepense. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "PREPENSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me dashje (by design, conscious, consciously, fain, knowingly, on purpose, purposefully, purposely, voluntary, wittingly), i paramenduar (aforethought, deliberate, intentional, preconceived, premeditated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | предумишлен (aforethought, deliberate, premeditated), преднамерен (aforethought, conscious, deliberate, intentional, loaded, premeditated, purposive, studied, studious, voluntary, wilful, willful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | úmyslný (advised, calculated, conscious, deliberate, intended, intentional, purposeful, voluntary, wanton, wilful, willful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προσχεδιασμένοσ (concerted, put up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elõre megfontolt (aforethought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epensepray premeditado (aforethought, calculated, premeditated, purposeful, wilful, willful), intencional (calculated, conscious, deliberate, designed, intended, intentional, pointed, purposeful, purposive, studied, wanton, wilful, willful), deliberado (advised, calculated, conscious, deliberate, designed, studied, wanton), com premeditação, com intenção (purposeful). (various references) предумышленный (aforethought, prepenseful). (various references) hotimičan (deliberate, intentional, purposive). (various references) premeditado (aforethought, calculated, deliberate, premeditated, premeditative, studied, wilful, willful). (various references) uppsåtlig (aforethought, intentional, malicious, premeditated, wilful), överlagd (aforethought, premeditated). (various references) tasarlanmış (conceived, deliberate, designed, intended, planned), kasıtlı (aforethought, deliberate, designed, designedly, felonious, intended, intentional, meaning, purposely, studied, voluntary, wilful, willful), önceden düşünülmüş. (various references) навмисний (advised, aforethought, calculated, deliberate, designed, felonious, forethought, industrious, intended, intentional, malicious, purposeful, voluntary, wilful, willful). (various references) chú tâm, có suy tính trước (aforethought, premeditated), có mưu tính trước (premeditated), cố ý (aforethought, consciously, deliberate, knowingly, set, studied, studious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "PREPENSE": prepensely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-p-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: peepers. | |
-2 letters: peeper, pensee, preens, reseen, serene. | |
-3 letters: epees, ernes, neeps, peens, peeps, peers, penes, perps, perse, preen, prees, preps, prese, repps, resee, sneer, speer, spree. | |
-4 letters: epee, erne, erns, neep, peen, peep, peer, pees, pens, peps, perp, pree, prep, rees, repp, reps, seen, seep, seer, sene, sere. | |
-5 letters: ens, ere, ern, ers, nee, pee. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-p-p-r-s" | |
+2 letters: prepensely. | |
+3 letters: newspapered, pepperiness. | |
+4 letters: apprehensive, dappernesses, epinephrines, newspapermen, paperinesses, percipiences, preparedness, prepotencies, preppinesses, prepubescent, propernesses, speakerphone, supplementer, teenyboppers. | |
+5 letters: apprehensible, neuropeptides, pepperinesses, perphenazines, preponderates, prepubescence, prepubescents, reappearances, speakerphones, superencipher, supplementers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 45 50 45 4E 53 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . .--. . -. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01000101 01010000 01000101 01001110 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R E P E N S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0045 0050 0045 004E 0053 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5052395039485339 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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