Inconsideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.
Something considered as areason orground for a (possible) decision.
Sure I'll move my car, but only for aconsideration.
1959,Anthony Burgess,Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972, page616:
A Malay here is proving helpful — Syed Omar, who says he's descended from Mohammed — and he's going to take us around. For aconsideration, of course, but what the hell!
(law) A matter ofinducement for something promised; something valuable given as recompense for a promise, which causes the promise to become binding as acontract.
[...] settled down on a small property he had near Quimper to live for the rest of his days in peace; but the failure of an attorney left him suddenly penniless, and neither he nor his wife was willing to live in penury where they had enjoyedconsideration.
Since his findings are without a foundation in data and a sound analysis thereof, they are nothing but wild and empty claims and do not deserveconsideration as a contribution to linguistic and historical studies.
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