prepense
verbEtymology Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.
1
Obsolete To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
- All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
- submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
2
Obsolete To deliberate beforehand.