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premeditates

premeditates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of premeditate.

Meaning of premeditate

Verb

premeditate (third-person singular simple present premeditates, present participle premeditating, simple past and past participle premeditated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To meditate, consider, or plan beforehand; to think about and revolve in the mind beforehand.
    • [I]ndeed I began ſincerely to hate my ſelf for a Dog, a VVretch that had been a Thief, and a Murtherer; […] I vvent about vvith my Heart full of theſe Thoughts, little better than a diſtracted Fellovv; in ſhort, running headlong into the dreadfulleſt Deſpair, and premeditated nothing but hovv to...1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC...

Questions about premeditates

What is premeditates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Premeditates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of premeditate.

Words near premeditates in the dictionary

  1. premeditate
  2. premeditated
  3. premeditatedly
  4. premeditatedness
  5. premeditately
  6. premeditates
  7. premeditating
  8. premeditatingly
  9. premeditation
  10. premeditations
  11. premeditative

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