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behold
English
Etymology
From Middle English beholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, have, occupy, possess, guard, preserve, contain, belong, keep, observe, consider, behold, look at, gaze on, see, signify, avail, effect, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan? (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- +? hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??h??ld/
- (General American) IPA(key): /b??ho?ld/
Verb
behold (third-person singular simple present beholds, present participle beholding, simple past beheld, past participle beheld or (rare) beholden)
- (transitive) To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
- […] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:
- (intransitive) To look.
- (transitive) To contemplate.
Usage notes
Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:look
Derived terms
- beholder
- eye of the beholder
Translations
Interjection
behold
- look, a call of attention to something
- lo!
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:lo
Translations
References
- behold in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- behold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [b?e?h?l?]
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German beholt, behalt, from the verb beholden; see also Danish beholde.
Noun
behold c (uninflected)
- (archaic) haven, refuge
- in the phrases i behold (“intact”) and i god behold (“safe”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
behold
- imperative of beholde
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
behold
- imperative of beholde
behold From the web:
- what behold means
- what holds atoms together
- what holds the nucleus together
- what holds atoms together in a molecule
- what holds bones together
- what holds sister chromatids together
- what holds base pairs together
- what holds ionic compounds together
consider
English
Alternative forms
- considre (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English consideren, from Middle French considerer, from Latin considerare.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k?n?s?d?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /k?n?s?d?/, [k?n?s???]
- Rhymes: -?d?(?)
Verb
consider (third-person singular simple present considers, present participle considering, simple past and past participle considered)
- (transitive) To think about seriously.
- Synonyms: bethink, (on) reflect
- (intransitive) To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.
- (transitive) To think of doing.
- Synonyms: think of, bethink
- (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
- Synonyms: deem, regard, think of; see also Thesaurus:deem
- 1825, Thomas Macaulay, An Essay on John Milton
- Considered as plays, his works are absurd.
- (transitive) To look at attentively.
- Synonyms: regard, observe; see also Thesaurus:pay attention
- (transitive) To take up as an example.
- (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate (or dispose of) a motion.
- Synonyms: deliberate, bethink
- To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
- Synonym: take into account
- February 21, 1679, William Temple, letter to the Lord Treasurer
- England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.
Usage notes
- In sense 3, this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- considre, decorins
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kon?sider]
Verb
consider
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of considera
consider From the web:
- what considered a fever
- what considered high blood pressure
- what considered low blood pressure
- what considers a car totaled
- what considered a good credit score
- what considered middle class
- what considered a low grade fever
- what considered a fever in adults
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