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单词 premeditating
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premeditatingadj.

Brit. /ˌpriːˈmɛdᵻteɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /priˈmɛdəˌteɪdɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: premeditate v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < premeditate v. + -ing suffix2. Compare earlier meditating n. and later meditating adj.
That premeditates. In quot. 1680: that is premeditated or considered.
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1680 W. Molyneux tr. R. Descartes Six Metaphysical Medit. i. 8 This doubt shall not be grounded on inadvertency or Levity, but upon strong and premeditating reasons [L. validas & meditatas rationes].
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iv. ii. 215 Nor wou'd he need be scandaliz'd with the Comparison of a Goat, or Boar, or other of Horace's premeditating Animals, who have more natural Wit, it seems, than our Philosopher.
?1749 W. Duff New Hist. Scotl. 60 The Earl of Athol, full of premeditating Wickedness, Blood, and Violence, only wanted to be avenged.
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks III. ix. 173 You scoundrel,..you utterly unmitigated scoundrel. You premeditating wilful villain.
1873 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 486/1 The sophist who tried to persuade the mariner..that the sea is a much pleasanter and safer place in a storm that the land, was a decoy setter and a premeditating sham.
1930 Times 31 July 8/5 He added that premeditating poisoners, as a rule, believed they could ‘get away with it’.
1997 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 84 67 If he thought about what he should do, he became a premeditating murderer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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