Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Planned or intended beforehand; premeditated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Thought of beforehand; premeditated; prepense: used in law.
- noun Premeditation; forethought.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Premeditation.
- adjective Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed.
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- adjective
Premeditated ;planned ahead of time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective planned in advance
Etymologies
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Examples
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Second-degree murder is killing with malice aforethought, which is killing deliberately or recklessly with extreme disregard for human life.
billingsgazette.com 2010
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They do not often permit a man to make himself a fine orator of malice aforethought, that is, unless he be a nobleman, (as, for example,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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They do not often permit a man to make himself a fine orator of malice aforethought, that is, unless he be a nobleman (as, for example,
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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MURDERED? as in un-lawfully killed with malice aforethought?
IPCC To Investigate Barwell Deaths « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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But when Sagan made such statements he advocating an untestable philosophical position, which is certainly his right and privilege, but with malice aforethought he allowed it to masquerade as scientific certainty.
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Israel today labors under the invidious stereotype that it is too clever to blunder militarily or politically—and therefore that any such blunders are, in fact, acts of malice aforethought.
Israel's Predicament Bret Stephens 2011
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The old wooden floors and the yellow walls echoed, and the only things left in the place were some beads and a picture, a polaroid, dusty, of Linda and Iin flagrante delicto, and I remembered the night and the punk who'd popped in unseen and shot off a roll, with malice aforethought so he could go back and laugh and jack off with his buddies.
All Of My Monsters And Beautiful Women In Dreams Robert Crisman 2011
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The difference is simple although only in the long run, Mr householder has been charged with murder i.e. with malice aforethought he killed someone.
Have You Heard The One About……. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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* Use of liberal obscenity done with malice aforethought, mostly because the author of the second HuffPo story was so assiduous in using the word ‘deregistering.’
Of *course* K Street thrived in 2009. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010
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There are other sock-puppets who have a more sinister quality, they are trolls, such as yourself who come here with malice aforethought and their only fuunction is to disrupt and derail threads.
Think Progress » Palin says she’s fine with Limbaugh’s use of the ‘r-word.’ 2010
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