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Consider   /kənsˈɪdər/   Listen
verb
Consider  v. t.  (past & past part. considered; pres. part. considering)  
1.
To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on. "I will consider thy testimonies." "Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considered all things visible."
2.
To look at attentively; to observe; to examine. "She considereth a field, and buyeth it."
3.
To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect. "Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day Was yours by accident." "England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad."
4.
To estimate; to think; to regard; to view. "Considered as plays, his works are absurd." Note: The proper sense of consider is often blended with an idea of the result of considering; as, "Blessed is he that considereth the poor."; i.e., considers with sympathy and pity. "Which (services) if I have not enough considered."; i.e., requited as the sufficient considering of them would suggest. "Consider him liberally."
Synonyms: To ponder; weigh; revolve; study; reflect or meditate on; contemplate; examine. See Ponder.



Consider  v. i.  
1.
To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate. "We will consider of your suit." "'T were to consider too curiously, to consider so." "She wished she had taken a moment to consider, before rushing down stairs."
2.
To hesitate. (Poetic & R.)






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"Consider" Quotes from Famous Books



... May Concern. Miss Lilly Becker has studied with me for a period of three years. I consider her voice a lyric soprano of ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... rather porous—a column of salt—and I will pour into the plate at the bottom, not water, as it appears, but a saturated solution of salt which cannot absorb more; so that the action which you see will not be due to its dissolving anything. We may consider the plate to be the candle, and the salt the wick, and this solution the melted tallow. (I have coloured the fluid, that you may see the action better.) You observe that, now I pour in the fluid, it rises and gradually creeps up the salt higher and higher; ...
— The Chemical History Of A Candle • Michael Faraday

... the bon comrade I knew at Saratoga. Let it always be so. My father and sister are waiting below and long to see you. Perhaps you will dine with us? We will consider ourselves fortunate.' ...
— The Statesmen Snowbound • Robert Fitzgerald

... shall want a storehouse for all the things we have got, and all that are in the wood and on the beach: and consider what a many trips we shall have to make with the little boat to bring them ...
— Masterman Ready - The Wreck of the "Pacific" • Captain Frederick Marryat

... preceding chapters we have often spoken of "our community." As a matter of fact, each of us is a member of a number of communities. It is time to consider just what they are ...
— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn


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