Premeditated

premeditation

premeditation : an act or instance of premeditating ;specif : consideration or planning of an act beforehand [designed so that it requires to tamper with it] [murder in the first degree is the killing of a human being committed…intentionally and with "Kansas Statutes Annotated"] see also cold blood, murder compare intent NOTE: The terms premeditation malice aforethought deliberate, and willful are often used in statutes either along with or instead of intent to describe the necessary mental state for a crime. In some jurisdictions the premeditation has to occur only moments before the act, while in others it must precede the act by an appreciable amount of time. ...

premeditate

premeditate -tat·ed -tat·ing vt : to think about or consider beforehand [must the killing and deliberate about it "W. R. LaFave and A. W. Scott, Jr."] vi : to think or consider beforehand ...

premeditated : having been thought about at some point before being committed [any killing] ;also : having been formed prior to commission of the act [with malice] compare deliberate ...

Premeditate

To think on and revolve in the mind beforehand to contrive and design previously as to premeditate robbery...

Premeditately

With premeditation...

murder

murder [partly from Old English morthor; partly from Old French murdre, of Germanic origin] the crime of unlawfully and unjustifiably killing another under circumstances defined by statute (as with premeditation) ;esp such a crime committed purposely, knowingly, and recklessly with extreme indifference to human life or during the course of a serious felony (as robbery or rape) compare cold blood, cooling time, homicide, manslaughter NOTE: Self-defense, necessity, and lack of capacity for criminal responsibility (as because of insanity) are defenses to a charge of murder. Most state statutes and the U.S. Code divide murder into two degrees. Florida, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania currently have three degrees of murder. Some states do not assign degrees of murder. [di-pr?vd-h rt-] a murder that is the result of an act which is dangerous to others and shows that the perpetrator has a depraved mind and no regard for human life NOTE: Depraved-heart murder is usually considered second- or...

aforethought

aforethought : previously in mind : premeditated ...

cold blood

cold blood : a state of mind marked by premeditation and deliberateness usually used in the phrase in cold blood [killed the victim in cold blood] compare cool state of blood, heat of passion cold-blood·ed [kōld-blə-dəd] adj ...

deliberate

deliberate -at·ed -at·ing vi : to think about and weigh or discuss issues and decisions carefully [the jury retired to ] vt : to think about or evaluate [di-li-bə-rət] adj 1 : characterized by or resulting from careful consideration ;esp : characterized by or resulting from evaluation done in a cool state of blood and with a fixed purpose [ murder] compare premeditated 2 : characterized by an understanding of the nature of a thing or act and its consequences [ falsehoods] de·lib·er·ate·ly adv de·lib·er·ate·ness n ...

deliberation

deliberation 1 a : the act of deliberating compare premeditation b : a discussion and consideration by a group of persons (as a jury or legislature) of the reasons for or against a measure 2 : the quality or state of being deliberate [killing with ] de·lib·er·a·tive [dē-li-bə-rā-tiv, -brə-tiv] adj ...

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