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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(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)

To amuse (someone); to engage the attention of agreeably.

to entertain friends with lively conversation

The motivational speaker not only instructed but also entertained the audience.

(transitive, and, intransitive) To have someone over at one's home for a party or visit.

They enjoy entertaining a lot.

* Bible, Heb. xiii. 2

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers

To receive and take into consideration; to have a thought in mind.

The committee would like to entertain the idea of reducing the budget figures.

to entertain a proposal

* De Quincey

I am not here going to entertain so large a theme as the philosophy of Locke.

* Hawthorne

A rumour gained ground, — and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people.

(obsolete) To take or keep in one's service; to maintain; to support; to harbour; to keep.

* Shakespeare

You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred.

(obsolete) To meet or encounter, as an enemy.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To lead on; to bring along; to introduce.

* Jeremy Taylor

to baptize all nations, and entertain them into the services and institutions of the holy Jesus