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Definition of Premeditations
1. premeditation [n] - See also: premeditation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Premeditations
Literary usage of Premeditations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"Ye haue nowe harde what premeditations be expedient before that a man take on
him the ... These notable premeditations and remembrances ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1902)
"... Attorney Penny secured from Czolgosz a detailed statement concerning his
premeditations and preparations for the crime, and also of his movements for ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1902)
"Shortly after his arrest District Attorney Penny secured from Czolgosz a detailed
statement con- •cerning his premeditations and preparations for the crime, ..."
4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"S's. PERCY SOCIETY, Memoir of Lady Warwick, with her I>i»ry. l-ond. 1847. 12mo, 3s.
— Arthur. Spare-Minutes; or, resolved Meditations, and Premeditations ..."
5. Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and by John Quincy Adams (1810)
"... furnished to the orator while he is speaking; or to some event so recent, that
it cannot be supposed to have entered into the orator's premeditations. ..."
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