Verb

(en verb)

(label) To think about seriously.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things visible.

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(label) To think of doing.

(label) To assign some quality to.

* (1800-1859)

Considered as plays, his works are absurd.

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* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

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(label) To look at attentively.

* Bible, (w) xxxi. 16

She considereth a field, and buyeth it.

(label) To take up as an example.

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To debate or dispose of a motion.

To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Consider , sir, the chance of war: the day / Was yours by accident.

* (1628–1699)

England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete)  To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.

* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:

he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.

* Dryden

He was designed to the study of the law.

To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).

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Primitive people believe that gods designed the Earth and humans.

(obsolete) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

* Shakespeare

We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design .