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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Premeditate \Pre*med"i*tate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Premeditated} (-t[=a]'t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Premeditating}.] [L. praemeditatus, p. p. of praemeditari; prae before + meditari to meditate. See {Meditate}.] To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery.
With words premeditated thus he said. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
premeditated
adjective: characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning; "a premeditated crime" [ant: {unpremeditated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "premeditated": advised, aforethought, calculated, conscious, considered, contrived, cooked-up, cut out, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, deliberate, designed, fixed, in the bag, intended, intentional, on ice, packed, planned, plotted, prearranged, preconceived, preconcerted, preconsidered, precontrived, predeliberated, predetermined, preordered, prepense, preresolved, purposive, put-up, rigged, schemed, set-up, stacked, studied, studious, thought-out
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