Definition of "prepense"

prepense

/pɹɪˈpɛns/

adjective
1. Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
verb
third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed
1. (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
  Quotations
  All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously
  1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published
  submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.