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contemplated

[kon-tuhm-pleyt, -tem-]

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verb (used with object)

to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully: to contemplate the stars.

to consider thoroughly; think fully or deeply about: to contemplate a difficult problem.

to have as a purpose; intend.

to have in view as a future event: to contemplate buying a new car.

verb (used without object)

to think studiously; meditate; consider deliberately.

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Origin:
1585–95; < Latin contemplātus past participle of contemplāre, contemplārī to survey, observe, equivalent to con- con- + templ(um) space marked off for augural observation, temple + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

con·tem·plat·ing·ly, adverb

con·tem·pla·tor, noun

pre·con·tem·plate, verb, -plat·ed, -plat·ing.

re·con·tem·plate, verb, -plat·ed, -plat·ing.

un·con·tem·plat·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1. gaze at, behold, regard, survey. 2. study, ponder. 3. design, plan.

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But this research is done by a method that is not contemplated for human gene therapy.

All of the officials responsible for the failed program have retired, so no personnel actions are contemplated.

Britain's overstretched defence budget should be cut-but not in the ferocious way being contemplated.

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But this research is done by a method that is not contemplated for human gene therapy.

All of the officials responsible for the failed program have retired, so no personnel actions are contemplated.

Britain's overstretched defence budget should be cut-but not in the ferocious way being contemplated.

If you've never contemplated gardening, now is the time to try it.

In its stead, the space agency contemplated unmanned rescue efforts.

Earlier ice palaces, built of rectangular ice blocks and soaring impressively high, were designed to be contemplated from outside.

It's a path rigged with legal land mines and mapped by laws that never contemplated such a far-reaching endeavor.

The whole reduction of postage contemplated in this project, is exclusively confined to the single item of the ocean transit.

Those ideas were seriously contemplated at one point, though, before empirical evidence supplanted them.

People contemplated public transport and telecommuting.

Souleyman contemplated tracking the poachers, but now his men had a new obsession: ivory.

We must allow for levels of infinity beyond those contemplated by set theorists.

They have been worn into shape by many ears and mouths, and have been contemplated often.

Some corporate advertisers have actually contemplated putting their logo on the moon, either seriously or jokingly.

Dailey left a note indicating that he had contemplated suicide by drowning.

She became introspective and contemplated her children's future.

The only cuts currently being contemplated are in the rate of its growth.

Patti has actually contemplated having him put down.

In fact, many mathematicians have contemplated sphere packing.

Plumbing codes never contemplated a urinal without water.

Mine apparently told the psychologist that she had contemplated suicide, but that she would never harm the child.

Since the option is being contemplated again, it is worth quoting him in full as his thoughts explain my worries.

Late last decade, as he contemplated retirement, national governments had approached him with questions about energy.

Renaissance painters and anyone who's ever contemplated a nautilus shell or the center of a sunflower.

But no one thinks that the contemplated increase is even remotely related to fairness.

They are the things so far outside normal experience that they're not even contemplated.

Other states have contemplated such laws, and may find themselves emboldened by the appeals court's ruling.

At one point, she contemplated an affair because she knew that the affair would cause her husband to file for divorce.

From a stupid economist angle, a lot of rail transport system should not even be contemplated let alone implemented.

Abshier contemplated the likelihood of losing electrical power.

Companies have contemplated suing him, but security experts have lauded his efforts for pointing out flaws.

We might, for example, have contemplated the fates of others who had been devastated not so long.

Everest, mighty and remote, struck fear into many who contemplated climbing.

Targets of digital abuse were almost three times as likely to report that they had also contemplated suicide at some point.

She had long contemplated this step, though she had spoken of it to no one, and the recent.

In every country that has contemplated regulating greenhouse gases, it is.

One of the half dozen baseball diamonds has been seeded, six of the thirty-six contemplated tennis courts are ready for surfacing.

However, what has not been seriously contemplated is the closure of an entire domestic television or radio channel.

Like a stargazer, he has contemplated an infinity of faces, discovering and recording in no less than.

I've had a few of those and seriously contemplated trepanning myself to make the pain stop.

They have even previously contemplated a ground-based laser removal system:.

Still, resignation has been contemplated from time to time.

These things are dangerous and should be contemplated and studied deeply along w the case studies from history.

Pirro's insistence that she never contemplated doing anything illegal in investigating her husband.

Much damage will be done before real change is contemplated.

The defendants might have contemplated attacking more flights, he said.

As early as the turn of the century, learned men seriously contemplated piloted space travel.

The prospectus did indicate this type of fee was contemplated.

And the health-care reform now being contemplated will not fix.

Zhu said he contemplated making a long black flight home, then thought better of.

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Word Origin & History

contemplate

c.1600, from L. contemplat-, pp. stem of contemplari (see contemplation). Related: Contemplated (pp. adj., 1863); contemplating (1660s).

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"Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles: it is an act quite easy to be contemplated, but in its sequel, it turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations."

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