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Prepense (2 syl.)

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Malice prepense is malice designed or before deliberated. (Latin, prœ pensus.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Preceptor
Précieuses Ridicules (in Molière’s comedy so called)
Preciosa
Precious Stones
Precocious
Prelate
Preliminary Canter (A)
Premier Pas
Premonstratensian
Prendre un Rat par la Queue
Prepense
Preposterous
Presbyterian
Prescott
Presents
Preserver [Sotēr]
Press-money and Press-men
Prester John
Prestige
Presto
Preston and his Mastiffs