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premeditating

premeditating is the present participle and gerund 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 premeditating

What is premeditating the present participle and gerund of?
Premeditating is the present participle and gerund of premeditate.

Words near premeditating in the dictionary

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

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