• (GA) IPA: /ˈkɑn.təmˌpleɪt/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈkɒn.təmˌpleɪt/

contemplate (contemplates, present participle contemplating; past and past participle contemplated)

1. 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.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Book the First”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗:

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

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

2. To consider as a possibility.

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

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

   I contemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.

• See also Thesaurus:ponder
• (look at) examine

• contemplation

• French: envisager, étudier, contempler
• German: nachsinnen
• Italian: considerare, contemplare
• Portuguese: contemplar
• Russian: размышля́ть
• Spanish: contemplar