premeditation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PREMEDITA'TION, noun [Latin proemeditatio.] 1. The act of meditating beforehand; previous deliberation. A sudden thought may be higher than nature can raise without premeditation 2. Previous contrivance or design formed; as the premeditation of a crime.
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