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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Precogitat, p.p. and ppl. adj. Also: prae- and -ate. [L. præcōgitāt-us p.p. of præcōgitāre, e.m.E. precogitate v. (1611), -ated ppl. adj. (1657).] Conceived or thought of in advance.
1. p.p. Premeditated; thought, considered, or imagined, in advance.1533 Boece 230 b.
Victorine … breking his aith attemptit tyrannye, quhilk skantlie he had precogitate Ib. 560 b.
To haue infinite riches and landis mare abow[n]dand than thai had precogitate afor 1567 Acts II 573/1.
In the tressonable conspiracie … precogitat imaginat & devysit in Strabogye
2. ppl. adj. Precogitated, premeditated.Appar. uncommon before the late 16th c.1504 Justiciary Rec. I 279.
Pro arte & parte precogitat felonie & le hamesukin 1573 Cal. Sc. P. IV 516.
They fund the wind favorable to the execution of thair precogitat mischeif 1588 Digest Justiciary Proc. L. 68.
Their slauchter … of the said Dauid Murray … vpoun sett purpois prouisioun [and] precogitat mailleice 1590 Reg. Morton I 166.
As concerning his majesties obedience quhatsumevir I hawe owrsene therin … was vpon na lang precogitat purpos bot suddanlie redackit therto 1590 James VI in Cal. Sc. P. X 451.
Ane slaughter … houbeit not of his awin motion or of precogitat malice but ensewing of accident upon ane suddane conflict 1600 Reg. Privy C. VI 146.
In the verie actuall executioun of thair precogitat and foirthocht treasone 1600 Crim. Trials II 116. 1606 Reg. Privy C. VII 498.
Quhidder it wes upon ony precogitat or foirthocht intentioun, or yf [etc.] 1615 Crim. Trials III 356.
With sic euidence of precogitat periurie 1632 Justiciary Cases I 204. 1670 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III 235. 1674 Argyll Justic. Rec. I 34.
Wpon precogitat malice and forethought fellonie 1680–1 Lauder Observes 25.
Brunt, whither by casuall accident and negligence, or designedly by praecogitat malice 1689 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 525.
