Aforethought
of previously; premeditated (usually used predicatively):
with malice aforethought.
premeditation; forethought.
historical examples
if a frenchman is ever rude, he is rude with malice prepense and aforethought.
lippincott’s magazine, vol. xvii, no. 99, march, 1876 various
yet invective singles him out for its one object, and so betrays the aforethought malice of its inspiration.
the life of cesare borgia raphael sabatini
adjective
(immediately postpositive) premeditated (esp in the phrase malice aforethought)
adj.
1580s, from afore + past tense of think. apparently an english loan-translation of old french legalese word prepense (see prepense) in malice prepense “malice aforethought” (c-ke).
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