Word Meanings - PREMEDITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery. With words premeditated thus he said. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to PREMEDITATE)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• THINK
  confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
• REVOLVENCY
  The act or state of revolving; revolution. Its own revolvency upholds the world. Cowper.
• REVOLVE
  1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved
• PREMEDITATION
  The act of meditating or contriving beforehand; previous deliberation; forethought.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• ROBBERY
  The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. Note: Robbery, in a strict sense, differs from theft, as it is effected by force or intimidation, whereas theft is committed by stealth, or privately. Syn. -- Theft; depredation; spoliation; despoliation;
• DESIGNLESS
  Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv.
• CONTRIVE
  To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• PREVIOUSLY
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• PREMEDITATE
  To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery. With words premeditated thus he said. Dryden.
• THINKER
  One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• METHINKS
  It seems to me; I think. See Me. In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. (more info) me þynceedh, me þuhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
• UNTHINKER
  A person who does not think, or does not think wisely.
• PRECONTRIVE
  To contrive or plan beforehand.