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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
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prepense
English
Etymology
Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p???p?ns/
Adjective
prepense
- Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.
See also
- malice prepense
Verb
prepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour
- All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:
- submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour
- (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.
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