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contemplate

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Etymology

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First attested in the 1590s;borrowed fromLatincontemplātus, theperfect active participle ofcontemplor(“to observe, survey, gaze (at), contemplate”), see-ate(verb-forming suffix). See alsotemplate.

Pronunciation

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(General American)IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.təmˌpleɪt/
(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.təmˌpleɪt/
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Hyphenation:con‧tem‧plate

Verb

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contemplate (third-person singular simple presentcontemplates,present participlecontemplating,simple past and past participlecontemplated)

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.
- 1671,John Milton, “The First Book”, inParadise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […],→OCLC,page 1:
  To love, at leastcontemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
- 1818,Lord Byron, “Canto IV”, inChilde Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, London:John Murray, […],→OCLC, stanza CLVIII:
  We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that theycontemplate.
To consider as a possibility.
- 1793 February 18,Alexander Hamilton, Loans, speech given to theUnited States House of Representatives:
  There remain some particulars to complete the informationcontemplated by those resolutions.
- 1826,James Kent,Commentaries on American Law:
  If a treaty contains any stipulations whichcontemplate a state of future war.
- 1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, inRailway Magazine, page779:
  In Calcutta, season tickets are issued only for the calendar month, with a different colour for each month, so that this problem does not arise. The merest whisper of an idea to change Bombay to the Calcutta system brought such a howl of protest in the Press, that it was never seriouslycontemplated.
- 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
  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 tocontemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
Icontemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.