† preˈpensity Obs. rare—1.
In 8 præ-.
[f. prepense a. + -ity: cf. immensity.]
Premeditation.
| 1757 E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) II. 43 Montaigne observes,..upon the subject of death, ‘that the philosophy of the schools but increases, by præpensity, the terrors of it’. |