Devised or contrived beforehand

  • 1prepense — a. Devised or contrived beforehand, premeditated, aforethought …

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  • 2international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …

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  • 3biblical literature — Introduction       four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha.       The Old… …

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  • 4game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision making problems, as those of military… …

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  • 5prepense — 1. adjective /pɹɪˈpɛns/ Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated. 2. verb /pɹɪˈpɛns/ To deliberate beforehand. submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world… …

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  • 6Prepense — Pre*pense , a. [See {Pansy}, and cf. {Prepense}, v. t.] Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense. [1913 Webster] This has not arisen from… …

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  • 7List of New Order Jedi characters — A number of fictional Jedi characters appeared in the Post Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe and were part of Luke Skywalker s New Jedi Order.CilghalStar Wars character name=Cilghal caption= color= Jedi source= position=Jedi Master, Jedi… …

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  • 8Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

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