premeditate
pree me duh tayt
- v consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand
premeditated murder - v think or reflect beforehand or in advance
I rarely premeditate, which is a mistake
- Schmidt asked the jury to find that White's "diminished mental capacity" left him unable to premeditate, deliberate, or harbor malice, the standards for first degree murder.
- If the jurors, the defense counsel and the psychiatrists are trying to tell us that Dan White May 28 did not premeditate the senseless killings of Mayor Moscone and Supervisor .
- Said Fuller: "The mentally ill, the insane, can calculate, can plan, can indeed premeditate some of the most bizarre kinds of activities.