Premeditation or predetermination of a crime, increasing the guilt or enormity of the crime.
(Law) criminal intent; the thoughts and intentions behind a wrongful act (including knowledge that the act is illegal); often at issue in murder trials.
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Examples for "premeditated "
1 It looks as if it was in some way premeditated , she said.
2 Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor said on Thursday that the murder was premeditated .
3 Least of all after conceiving a precise and premeditated plan of escape.
4 This crime is one which in its nature is deliberate and premeditated .
5 After all, it was not a premeditated assassination, said Madame d'Elbeuf coolly.
1 The act was without premeditation ; her whole being was insistent upon it.
2 It decided the offence merited a top-level entry in terms of premeditation .
3 Against the theory of premeditation the following cardinal facts may be urged:
4 Methinks, Father Francis, we need now but the evidence of the premeditation .
5 He seated himself with plain premeditation directly opposite the caisse, staring openly.
1 This circumstance wears the look of almost a predetermination to accept defeat.
2 The actual facts had little to do with the predetermination of the members.
3 Most fundamentally: there was no presumption of innocence; instead, a predetermination of guilt.
4 Foreknowledge and predetermination on his part are impossible, according to Renouvier.
5 Some momentary paroxysm prompted the deed; there could have been no preparation, no predetermination .
1 The questions you have pale before the bald fact of premeditated murder .
2 He has appeared in court charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder .
3 An Alameda County jury convicted him of first-degree, premeditated murder in April.
4 A charge against him of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder was dismissed.
5 We condemn this crime, this assassination, as deliberate and premeditated murder , he said.
1 And in his case he does it deliberately and of malice aforethought .
2 God knows; she might think it was done spitefully, with malice aforethought .
3 Now, let us go forth and smite the ungodly with malice aforethought .
4 Indeed, I have with malice aforethought ransacked his works to find them.
5 Terrible as is his crime, he never committed it out of malice aforethought .
6 I'll have thee to the justice, sirrah, for wicked malice aforethought , and misprision.
7 Why is it you are always ashamed of your country? with malice aforethought .
8 He had acted in cold blood, with malice aforethought , without hesitation or regret.
9 All that is bad in his works is bad elaborately, and of malice aforethought .
10 This sailing with a "dry" boat was malice aforethought on my part.
11 But he is much given to making threats, bearing grudges and behaving with malice aforethought .
12 But even granting that, one could scarcely help suspecting malice aforethought in the curious provision.
13 One thing was for sure: whoever it was had done it with complete malice aforethought .
14 I think he did it with malice aforethought , too.
15 A string quartet was committing Mozart with malice aforethought .
16 Which is how I found myself on a crowded train to Oxford-shire, with malice aforethought .
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