Crossword-Solution: PREPENSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prepense | v. t. | To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate. |
| Prepense | v. i. | To deliberate beforehand. |
| Prepense | v. t. | Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PREPENSE (5)
Here, Fangs! Fangs!” he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog, a sort of lurcher, half mastiff, half greyhound, which ran limping about as if with the purpose of seconding his master in collecting the refractory grunters; but which, in fact, from misapprehension of the swine-herd’s signals, ignorance of his own duty, or malice prepense, only drove them hither and thither, and increased the evil which he seemed to design to remedy.
Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.
David did not do this; he gave the reins to his wild heart, instead of curbing it, and became a robber, and, alas! alas! he shed blood--under peculiar circumstances, it is true, and without _malice prepense_--and for that blood he eventually died, and justly; for it was that of the warden of a prison from which he was escaping, and whom he slew with one blow of his stalwart arm.
Now, _that_, if it may, by clever manipulation and dexterity, be made to do in a novel, most certainly it will not do on the stage--more especially if it is done consciously and, as it were, of _malice prepense_; because, for one thing, there is in the theatre a very varied yet united audience which has to give a simultaneous and immediate verdict--an audience not inclined to some kinds of overwrought subtleties and casuistries, however clever the technique.
That the author of the said work applied himself to his task in malice prepense and with wickedness aforethought; a fact which, your Dedicator contends, is sufficiently demonstrated, by his assuming the name of Quiz, which, your Dedicator submits, denotes a foregone conclusion, and implies an intention of quizzing.
Quotes with PREPENSE (2)
It is true that the speculator may happen to go astray in his estimate of future prices. What is usually overlooked in considering this possibility is that under the given conditions it is far beyond the capacities of most people to foresee the future any more correctly. If this were not so, the opposing group of buyers or sellers would have got the upper hand in the market. The fact that the opinion accepted by the market has later proved to be false is lamented by nobody wi…
The opacity of the mind, its inability to project itself into the realm of another's personality, goes a long way to explain the friction of life. If we would set down other people's errors to this rather than to malice prepense we should not only get more good out of life and feel more kindly toward our fellows, but doubtless the rectitude of our intellects would increase, and the justice of our judgments... we are so shut away from one another that none tells those about hi…