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In a premeditated manner.

The quality or state of being prepollent; superiority of power; predominance; prevalence. [R.] Coventry.

Having superior influence or power; prevailing; predominant. [R.] Boyle.

To preponderate [Obs.]

The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing. The mind should . . . reject or receive proportionably to the preponderancy of the greater grounds of probability. Locke. In a few weeks he had changed the relative position of all the states in Europ…

Preponderating; outweighing; overbalancing; -- used literally and figuratively; as, a preponderant weight; of preponderant importance. -- Pre*pon"der*ant*ly, adv.

overbalance. An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the center of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes. Glanvill.

In a preponderating manner; preponderantly.

The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, a preponderation of reasons. I. Watts.

To place or set before; to prefix. [Obs.] Fuller.

A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. [Obs.] He made a long preposition and oration. Fabyan.

Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition. Early. -- Prep`o*si"tion*al*ly, adv.

Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. -- n.

A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor. Todd.

The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship. Lowth.

to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset. It created him enemies, and prepossessed the lord general. Evelyn.

ending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner. -- Pre`pos*sess"ing*ly, adv.

vious impression; bias; -- generally, but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood. "The prejudices and prepossessions of the country." Sir W. Scott.

One who possesses, or occupies, previously. R. Brady.

t which ought to be last; inverted in order. [Obs.] The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature. Woodward.