unpreˈmeditated, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| 1591 Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. ii. 88 Aske me what question thou canst possible, And I will answer vnpremeditated. 1619 A. Newman Pleas. Vis. 2 His vnpremeditated words. 1699 Bentley Phal. 237 Both Comedies and Tragedies for some time were unpremeditated and extemporal. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 444 Those unpremeditated addresses to Heaven called ejaculations. 1814 Scott Wav. xxvi, The hint..respecting Flora was not unpremeditated. 1878 Stubbs Const. Hist. xviii. III. 9 The scene in Westminster Hall..was no unpremeditated pageant. |
Hence unpreˈmeditatedness.
| 1802–12 Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 295 There is no such absolute incompatibility..between recollectedness and unpremeditatedness. 1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. 280 The suddenness and unpremeditatedness of Prayer. |