See contemplate on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.",
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"text": "We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.",
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"ref": "1793 February 18, Alexander Hamilton, Loans, speech given to the United States House of Representatives",
"text": "There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions."
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"ref": "1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 779:",
"text": "In Calcutta, season tickets are issued only for the calendar month, with a different colour for each month, so that this problem does not arise. The merest whisper of an idea to change Bombay to the Calcutta system brought such a howl of protest in the Press, that it was never seriously contemplated.",
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"ref": "2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:",
"text": "Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.",
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"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"Terms with Yup'ik translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "contemplatable"
},
{
"word": "contemplate one's navel"
},
{
"word": "contemplatingly"
},
{
"word": "contemplatist"
},
{
"word": "contemplative"
},
{
"word": "contemplator"
},
{
"word": "recontemplate"
},
{
"word": "uncontemplated"
}
],
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"2": "la",
"3": "contemplātus"
},
"expansion": "Latin contemplātus",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Attested since the 1590s; borrowed from Latin contemplātus, from contemplari (“observe, survey”).",
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{
"form": "contemplates",
"tags": [
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"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "contemplating",
"tags": [
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},
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},
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}
],
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"con‧tem‧plate"
],
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"word": "contemplation"
}
],
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"categories": [
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],
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{
"ref": "1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 1:",
"text": "To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1818, Lord Byron, “Canto IV”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza CLVIII:",
"text": "We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
]
},
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],
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{
"ref": "1793 February 18, Alexander Hamilton, Loans, speech given to the United States House of Representatives",
"text": "There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions."
},
{
"ref": "1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:",
"text": "If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 779:",
"text": "In Calcutta, season tickets are issued only for the calendar month, with a different colour for each month, so that this problem does not arise. The merest whisper of an idea to change Bombay to the Calcutta system brought such a howl of protest in the Press, that it was never seriously contemplated.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:",
"text": "Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "I contemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To consider as a possibility."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɑn.təmˌpleɪt/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɒn.təmˌpleɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "look at",
"word": "examine"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ditarkel",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "դիտարկել"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "obmisljam",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "обмислям"
},
{
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "adanvte",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "ᎠᏓᏅᏖ"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "beschouwen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "contempleren"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "overwegen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "pohtia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "pohdiskella"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "mietiskellä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "suunnitella"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "envisager"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "étudier"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "contempler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "nachsinnen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "kontemplieren"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "syllogízomai",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "συλλογίζομαι"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "skopéō",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "σκοπέω"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "cintan",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "चिंतन"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "manan",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "मनन"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "elmélkedik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "szemlél"
},
{
"code": "ia",
"lang": "Interlingua",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "contemplar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "considerare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "contemplare"
},
{
"alt": "じゅっこうする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "jukkō suru",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "熟考する"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "meditor"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "dispecto"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "inspicio"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "huritao"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "whakaaroaro"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "taute"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "vurdere"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "تفکر کردن"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "contemplar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "cugeta"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "contempla"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "chibzui"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razmyšljátʹ",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "размышля́ть"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "meòraich"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "cnuasaich"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "contemplar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "överväga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "betänka"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "yoğunlaşmak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "düşünmek"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "nghĩ"
},
{
"code": "esu",
"lang": "Yup'ik",
"sense": "think about something in a concentrated manner",
"word": "umyuaqvagluni"
}
],
"word": "contemplate"
}
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"Italian non-lemma forms",
"Italian past participle forms",
"Italian verb forms",
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"Pages with entries"
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"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "contemplare"
}
],
"glosses": [
"inflection of contemplare:",
"second-person plural present indicative"
],
"links": [
[
"contemplare",
"contemplare#Italian"
]
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"word": "contemplare"
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],
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[
"contemplare",
"contemplare#Italian"
]
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"imperative",
"plural",
"second-person"
]
}
],
"word": "contemplate"
}
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"Italian past participle forms",
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"g": "f-p"
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"name": "head"
}
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"lang_code": "it",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"form_of": [
{
"word": "contemplato"
}
],
"glosses": [
"feminine plural of contemplato"
],
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[
"contemplato",
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]
],
"tags": [
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"form-of",
"participle",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "contemplate"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "contemplāte",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
}
],
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"1": "la",
"2": "participle form",
"head": "contemplāte"
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"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "verb",
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],
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"word": "contemplātus"
}
],
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"vocative masculine singular of contemplātus"
],
"links": [
[
"contemplātus",
"contemplatus#Latin"
]
],
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"masculine",
"participle",
"singular",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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"lang": "Spanish",
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"pos": "verb",
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"word": "contemplar"
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],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular voseo imperative of contemplar combined with te"
],
"links": [
[
"contemplar",
"contemplar#Spanish"
],
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"te",
"te#Spanish"
]
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"object-singular",
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"singular",
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]
}
],
"word": "contemplate"
}
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