Verb

(head)

(contemplate)

Verb

(contemplat)

To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.

* Milton

To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.

* Byron

We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .

To consider as a possibility.

* A. Hamilton

There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.

* Kent

If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.

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Verb

(head)

(ponder)

Verb

(en verb)

To wonder, to think of deeply.

To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, to mull over.

I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.

* Bible, Proverbs iv. 26

Ponder the path of thy feet.

(obsolete) To weigh.