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verb

Contemplate v. t. (past & past part. contemplated; pres. part. contemplating)

To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. "To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent. " "We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate."

To consider or have in view, as contingent or probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend. "There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions." "If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war."

Synonyms: To view; behold; study; ponder; muse; meditate on; reflect on; consider; intend; design; plan; propose; purpose. See Meditate.

Contemplate v. i. To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate. "So many hours must I contemplate."

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Etymology of 'Contemplate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Contemplate" Quotes from Famous Books

... die early, in a foreign land; and many—many more things, which I dare not repeat; for I cannot contemplate the ...

— A Love Story • A Bushman

... to a rate double the normal, and the tension was diminished. The impression described by the subject afterward was a feeling of "lofty grandeur and calmness." A mountain climbing experience of years before was recalled, and the subject seemed to contemplate a landscape of "lofty grandeur." A different sort of music was played (the intense and ghastly scene in which Brunhilde appears to summon Sigmund to Valhalla). Immediately a marked change took place in the pulse. It became slow and irregular, and ...

— Complete Hypnotism: Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism • A. Alpheus

... we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela. In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred, and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow. I am nevertheless firm in my conviction that while it is a grievous thing to contemplate the two great English-speaking peoples ... as being otherwise than friendly ... there is no calamity ... which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong ...

— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... stopped once and spoke to the crowd, and, as I knew no Chinese, I told them in gentle English of the very low opinion their conduct led me to form of the moral relations of their mothers, and the resignation with which it induced me to contemplate the hyperpyretic surroundings of their posthumous existence; and, borrowing the Chinese imprecation, I ventured to express the hope that when their souls return again to earth they may dwell in the bodies of hogs, since they appeared to me the ...

— An Australian in China - Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma • George Ernest Morrison

... will lead him on to consider that the beauty of the mind is more honorable than the beauty of the outward form. So that if a virtuous soul have but a little comeliness, he will be content to love and tend him... until his beloved is compelled to contemplate and see the beauty of institutions and laws, and understand that all is of one kindred; and that personal beauty is only a trifle; and after laws and institutions, he will lead him on to the sciences, that he may see their beauty... until ...

— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

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