ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., I. ii. 88. Aske me what question thou canst possible, And I will answer vnpremeditated.
1619. A. Newman, Pleas. Vis., 2. His vnpremeditated words.
1699. Bentley, Phal., 237. Both Comedies and Tragedies for some time were unpremeditated and extemporal.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 444. Those unpremeditated addresses to Heaven called ejaculations.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxvi. The hint … respecting Flora was not unpremeditated.
1878. Stubbs, Const. Hist., xviii. III. 9. The scene in Westminster Hall … was no unpremeditated pageant.
Hence Unpremeditatedness.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), I. 295. There is no such absolute incompatibility … between recollectedness and unpremeditatedness.
1883. H. Drummond, Nat. Law in Spir. W., 280. The suddenness and unpremeditatedness of Prayer.
