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premeditated murder
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a premeditated crime
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a deliberate and premeditated policy to exclude minorities
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Murder in the first degree—premeditated homicide—is the most serious charge tried in our criminal courts. (source)premeditated = to plan or consider before doing
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First-degree murder is defined as a premeditated act and, in such cases, the state is allowed to seek the death penalty.† (source)
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It indicted Williams for first-degree murder—premeditated and with malice aforethought.† (source)
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Certainly, I thought, this is what they meant by "premeditated"— this deliberate savoring of each step, the assembly of each element, the contemplation of how death would be created, how a path of intentional circumstances paralleling and mimicking accidental circumstances would be set out upon.† (source)
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Kit — " His words came in an unpremeditated rush.† (source)unpremeditated = not plannedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unpremeditated means not and reverses the meaning of premeditated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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13:11 But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.† (source)
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It is a charge that suggests a state of mind in which the guilty party premeditates a murder in cold blood.† (source)
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The preparation of breakfast (burnt offering): intestinal congestion and premeditative defecation (holy of holies): the bath (rite of John): the funeral (rite of Samuel): the advertisement of Alexander Keyes (Urim and Thummim): the unsubstantial lunch (rite of Melchisedek): the visit to museum and national library (holy place): the bookhunt along Bedford row, Merchants' Arch, Wellington Quay (Simchath Torah): the music in the Ormond Hotel (Shira Shirim): the altercation with a truculent troglodyte in Bernard Kiernan's premises (holocaust): a blank period of time including a cardrive, a visit to a house of mourning, a leavetaking (wilderness): the eroticism produced by feminine exhibitionism† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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By March of 1971—when Lt. William Calley was convicted of premeditated murder—I was already a landed immigrant, I'd already applied for Canadian citizenship.† (source)
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I am sure the question was unpremeditated, being inspired by the unusual conditions-and probably by my presence.† (source)
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In order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that Beaumarchais should announce it, that Condorcet should calculate it, that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it is necessary that Danton should dare it.† (source)
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A man who premeditates such a crime is silent and keeps it to himself.† (source)
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Stanton read it and recognized that it was full of clues: Booth had at least two coconspirators named "Sam" and "Mike"; Sam was in Baltimore; the assassination was premeditated, planned before March 27; and the Confederacy might be involved.† (source)
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