† purˈpense, v. Obs.
Also 6 pour-.
[a. OF. purpenser (11th c.) f. pur-, pour- (:—L. prō forth) + penser to think. Superseded in 16th c. by prepense, so as to emphasize the notion of ‘beforehand’.]
trans. To think of, meditate or deliberate upon; to determine beforehand; to premeditate.
| c 1400 Beryn 2214 A Cachepoll..so was he ful ensensid How he hym wold engyne, as he had purpensid. 1450 Rolls of Parlt. V. 177/2 Purpensyng [in Paston L. I. 100 printed prepensing] that your said grete Ennemye and Adversarie Charles shuld conquere and gete by power and myght youre seid Reame of Fraunce. 1496 Act 12 Hen. VII, c. 7 James Grame..wilfully assentid and purpensed the murdre of oon Richard Tracy Gentilman, then his maister. 1512 Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 27 The said iniury (bi her commised and purpensed). |
Hence
† purˈpensed ppl. a. [after
OF. purpensé], resolved, premeditated, planned, deliberate;
esp. in
malice purpensed,
purpensed malice, the original form of
malice prepensed or
prepense,
q.v.| [a 1170 Laws Will. I, i. §1 (Liebermann) 492 Autresi..de agwait purpensé [v.rr. purpensed, prepensed]. 1404 Rolls of Parlt. III. 541/1 Si soit trovee qe ce soit fait par malice purpense.] |
| 1436 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 498/1 William Pulle..in awayte lyggyng, by assaute purpensed,..the saide Isabell felonousely there than toke..and fro thens ledde. 1459 Ibid. V. 348/1 Contynuyng in their purpensed malicious and dampnable opynions. 1477 Ibid. VI. 193/1 Of the moost extreme purpensed malice. 1529 More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 238/2 In such a wilfull purpensed haynous cruell dede. 1538 Fitzherb. Just. Peas 106 b, Mourdour, by chaunce medley, and not of malyce pourpensed. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark iii. 30 A purpensed malice againste the goodnesse of God. |
Also
† purˈpensedly,
† purˈpensely adv. = prepensely.
| 1472–3 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 51/2 The yates of the same..willfully and purpensely with fyere..[the Rioters] brent. 1496 Act 12 Hen. VII, c. 7 If any laie persone hereaftir purpensidly murder their Lord Maister or Sovereign immediate, that they hereaftir be not admytted to their Clergie. |