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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--prepense This week's theme: adjectives used postpositively. prepense (pri-PENS) adjective Planned; premeditated. [From Anglo-Norman purpenser (to premeditate), from Latin pensare (to think).] -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "As regards responsibility, the distinction between malice prepense and blameless or accidental commission of an act is not regarded." G.W.F. Hegel; Philosophy Of History: China; (translation: J. Sibree). X-Bonus He who would be a leader must be a bridge. -Welsh proverb

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