Past tense of deliberate: thought carefully and thoroughly about something before deciding.
From the past tense form of 'deliberate', derived from Latin 'deliberatus'. The '-ed' ending marks it as past tense in English.
When a jury has 'deliberated,' they've spent time in the jury room carefully discussing evidence—it's why courts take time to let juries think rather than rush decisions!
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