Crossword clues for considered
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Consider \Con*sid"er\ (k[o^]n*s[i^]d"[~e]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Considered (k[o^]n*s[i^]d"[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Considering.] [F. consid['e]rer, L. considerare, -sideratum, to consider, view attentively, prob. fr. con- + sidus, sideris, star, constellation; orig., therefore, to look at the stars. See Sidereal, and cf. Desire.]
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To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.
I will consider thy testimonies.
--Ps. cxix. 95.Thenceforth to speculations high or deep I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind Considered all things visible.
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To look at attentively; to observe; to examine.
She considereth a field, and buyeth it.
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To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day Was yours by accident.
--Shak.England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.
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To estimate; to think; to regard; to view.
Considered as plays, his works are absurd.
--Macaulay.Note: The proper sense of consider is often blended with an idea of the result of considering; as, ``Blessed is he that considereth the poor.''
--Ps. xli. 1.; i.e., considers with sympathy and pity. ``Which [services] if I have not enough considered.''
--Shak.; i.e., requited as the sufficient considering of them would suggest. ``Consider him liberally.''
--J. Hooker.Syn: To ponder; weigh; revolve; study; reflect or meditate on; contemplate; examine. See Ponder.
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Usage examples of "considered".
He accepts command of the cadet corps at West Point in 1851, considered by many as the great reward for good service, the respectable job in which to spend the autumn of his career.
Considered the rising star in the academic community, Chamberlain accepts a prestigious Chair at Bowdoin, formerly held by the renowned Calvin Stowe, husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
New Englanders also favored New York, it being much the easiest location for them to reach, though Philadelphia, adamantly espoused by the Pennsylvanians, was considered an acceptable alternative.
That Jefferson, after attending the College of William and Mary, had read law at Wilhamsburg for five years with the eminent George Wythe, gave him still greater standing with Adams, who considered Wythe one of the ablest men in Congress.
As for Captain Tucker, Adams considered him able and attentive, though, to judge by the few books in his cabin, no doubt lacking in erudition.
From his rooms on the Rue de Richelieu, Adams issued almost daily correspondence, writing at times two and three letters a day, these addressed to President Samuel Huntington and filled with reports on British politics, British and French naval activities, or his own considered views on European affairs.
Congress had considered sending a minister to Holland even before Adams left on his initial mission to France, and in his first months at Paris, he had reported that there was more friendship for America in Holland than generally understood.
Yet when John Quincy asked if he might buy ice skates that winter, Adams consented without hesitation, explaining that skating should be considered a fine art.
But as any adverse or critical comment on Washington, any ridicule at all, would have been considered unacceptable at this stage, Adams served as a convenient target for mockery and humor, and would again, just as he would be subject to the easiest, most damaging of smear words: monarchist.
But then, when McHenry agreed to resign, Adams, his fury spent, said almost in apology he had always considered McHenry a man of understanding and integrity.
Everything considered, there was almost no reason for Adams to have liked anything about it.
Rush, a champion of reform in education, thought Greek and Latin were outmoded and should be replaced with the study of modern languages, which Adams considered thoroughly wrongheaded.
In November of 1812, Rush sent Adams a first copy of what he considered his most important work, Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind.
The mere fact that his captors saw no need to restrain him sent an insulting message: Now they considered the Adar of the Solar Navy to be no threat at all.
RCN considered proper commo protocol: Adele herself was very poor at that.