Defn: To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate. [Obs.]
Spenser. Sir T. Elyot.
PREPENSE
Pre*pense", v. i.
Defn: To deliberate beforehand. [Obs.]
PREPENSE
Pre*pense", a. Etym: [See Pansy, and cf. Prepense, v. t.]
Defn: Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; — usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense. This has not arisen from any misrepresentation or error prepense. Southey.
PREPENSELY
Pre*pense"ly, adv.
Defn: In a premeditated manner.
PREPOLLENCE; PREPOLLENCY
Pre*pol"lence, Pre*pol"len*cy, n. Etym: [L. praepollentia.]
Defn: The quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence. [R.] Coventry.
PREPOLLENT Pre*pol"lent, a. Etym: [L. praepollens, p. p. of praepollere to surpass in power; prae before + pollere to be powerful.]