All 4 Uses of
premeditated
in
The Idiot
- All this was no doubt extremely coarse, and moreover it was premeditated, but after all Ferdishenko had persuaded everyone to accept him as a buffoon.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- At all events her performance—which was a joke, of course, if rather a crude one,—was premeditated.†
Chpt 2.7
- Oh no. There was nothing premeditated, there was not even any conscious purpose in it all, and yet, in spite of everything, the family, although highly respected, was not quite what every highly respected family ought to be.†
Chpt 3.1
- I see—you knew it all before—I dare say you knew all about it yesterday—" Although the impudence of this attack, this public proclamation of intimacy, as it were, was doubtless premeditated, and had its special object, yet Evgenie Pavlovitch at first seemed to intend to make no show of observing either his tormentor or her words.†
Chpt 3.2
Definition:
to plan or consider before doing -- especially of a crime