different between preconceived vs prepense

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?k?n?si?vd/

Adjective

preconceived (not comparable)

1. (of an opinion or notion) Conceived beforehand: formed ahead of time.

Synonyms

• forebegotten

Translations

Verb

preconceived

1. simple past tense and past participle of preconceive

English

Etymology

Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???p?ns/

Adjective

prepense

1. Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

See also

• malice prepense

Verb

prepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:

     submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].

2. (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.