Contemplate
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkɑn.təm.ˌpleɪt/
Origin
Attested since the 1590s; from Latin contemplatus (contemplÄtus), from contemplari ("observe, survey").
Full definition of contemplate
Verb
- To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
- MiltonTo love, at least contemplate and admire,
What I see excellent. - ByronWe thus dilate
Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate. - To consider as a possibility.
- A. HamiltonThere remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
- KentIf a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
- 2013-07-20, The attack of the MOOCs, Since the launch early last year of … two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
- I contemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.