(a.) Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder.
(n.) Premeditation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dr. Diamond's courageous defense of the diminished capacity plea in People v. Gorshen (1959) emphasized mental disturbances negating malice aforethought.
(2) Lamo said that during his internet interactions with Manning he had at no point felt that Manning had any malice aforethought in trying to help enemies of the US.
(3) Really the prosecution work has just begun.” The brief indictment alleged that Slager killed Scott “with malice aforethought”.
(4) It is true that the porous-to-nonexistent nature of the French-Belgian frontier after Schengen allowed all and sundry to cross with impunity, including those with weapons and malice aforethought.
Forethought
Definition:
(a.) Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
(n.) A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dysfunctional impulsivity is the tendency to act with less forethought than most people of equal ability when this tendency is a source of difficulty; most previous work on impulsivity appears to have focused on this trait.
(2) Rapists – deliberately and with forethought – use alcohol as a weapon in their assaults.
(3) No amount of forethought and attention to detail can guarantee the success of the Triangle.
(4) No, the price is not in monetary values, but the price of forethought, planning, good organization and effective use of that committee.
(5) Although our opening date has been delayed, I am confident that our forethought and preparation will result in a smooth transition and an efficient staff.
(6) The images published by the US newspaper revealed that the device that killed 22 people used by Salman Abedi had been made with “forethought and care”, raising questions for investigators about how it had been constructed and by whom.
(7) Functional impulsivity, in contrast, is the tendency to act with relatively little forethought when such a style is optimal.
(8) I can tell you the people that I’ve executed, when they committed crimes, they didn’t, wasn’t thinking about the death penalty and a lot of them were high, or a lot of them in the generation of people we’re dealing with today don’t have a lot of forethought about the end result,” he said.
(9) Manchester City – except they’ve planned it with skill and forethought, whereas we didn’t.
(10) Citing community feedback about the riots, the report concluded: "Either the violence was spontaneous without any degree of forethought or … a level of tension existed among sections of the community that was not identified through the community engagement."
(11) which might carry off "Lear" without forethought is not his, but if sheer acting ability and intelligence can make Lear live for us in the theatre, then Mr Redgrave's interpretation, taken wholly, is one of the most interesting and vivid lessons in the way to play the part.
(12) It is demonstrated, by analysing data taken from the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia database, that zero crossing analysis can sometimes be used t distinguish between different arrhythmias, but forethought concerning the number of sum and difference operations to be taken on the original data set is required when computing the higher order crossing counts.
(13) The preparation of overlapping electron micrographs (particularly from transmission electron microscopy) requires special forethought in planning, exceptional skills in microscopy and photographic techniques, as well as in display preparations which are unique in their handling and execution.
(14) Trump blundered into it on Wednesday when, with little evidence of forethought, he said in a TV interview that abortion ought to be illegal and women who underwent such an illegal procedure should face “some sort of punishment”.
(15) The key to successful arthroscopic surgery is careful forethought, meticulous planning, constant education, and a dependable team.
(16) Selection of a nuclear medicine computer system is a process that should be approached with care and forethought.
(17) Although this method does not determine the actual drug concentration per se, subversion of the monitoring procedure for many solutions would require considerable forethought and scientific knowledge.
(18) However, many times medical problems occur which no amount of safety and forethought could have prevented.