Before you accept a job offer, or a college's offer of admission, you should take time to contemplate the pros and cons of your decision. If you contemplate something, you think about it carefully.
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.
Verb
reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
Verb
consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"
Verb
think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study"
Verb
look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; "contemplate one''s navel"
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To consider or have in view, as contingent or
probable; to look forward to; to purpose; to intend.
v. i.
To consider or think studiously; to ponder; to
reflect; to muse; to meditate.
Contemplate
To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent.
We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.2.
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.
Contemplate
So many hours must I contemplate.
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 consider or think studiously; to ponder; to reflect; to muse; to meditate.
Usage Examples
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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