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Definition of premeditated adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

premeditated

adjective
 
/ˌpriːˈmedɪteɪtɪd/
 
/ˌpriːˈmedɪteɪtɪd/
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  1. (of a crime or bad action) planned in advance
    • The killing had not been premeditated.
    • This was a callous, premeditated attack on a defenceless young man.
    opposite unpremeditatedTopics Crime and punishmentc2, War and conflictc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryPremeditated is used with these nouns:
    • murder
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    Word Originmid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as premeditation): from Latin praemeditat- ‘thought out before’, from the verb praemeditari, from prae ‘before’ + meditari ‘meditate’ + -ed.
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