Crossword clues for contemplation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contemplation \Con`tem*pla"tion\, n. [F. contemplation, L. contemplatio.]
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The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.
In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God.
--Milton.Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view.
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Holy meditation. [Obs.]
To live in prayer and contemplation.
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The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left.
--Reid.To have in contemplation, to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "religious musing," from Old French contemplation or directly from Latin contemplationem (nominative contemplatio) "act of looking at," from contemplat-, past participle stem of contemplari "to gaze attentively, observe," originally "to mark out a space for observation" (as an augur does). From com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + templum "area for the taking of auguries" (see temple (n.1)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study. 2 Holy meditation. 3 The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.
WordNet
n. a long and thoughtful observation
a calm lengthy intent consideration [syn: reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness]
Wikipedia
Contemplation means profound thinking about something. The word contemplation comes from the Latin word contemplatio. Its root is also that of the Latin word templum, a piece of ground consecrated for the taking of auspices, or a building for worship, derived either from Proto-Indo-European base *tem- "to cut", and so a "place reserved or cut out" or from the Proto-Indo-European base *temp- "to stretch", and thus referring to a cleared space in front of an altar. The Latin word contemplatio was used to translate the Greek word θεωρία ( theoria). In a religious sense, contemplation is usually a type of prayer or meditation.
Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the Rowohlt Verlag on an initiative by Kurt Wolff.
Eight of these stories were published before under the title Betrachtungen ("Contemplations") in the bimonthly Hyperion. The collection Description of a Struggle, published in 1958, includes some of the stories In English, in whole or in part. All the stories appear in The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka (1971) and were published in a single volume edition by Twisted Spoon Press, illustrated by Fedele Spadafora. They have also been translated by Malcolm Pasley and are available in the Penguin Books edition, The Transformation and Other Stories (1992).
The book was printed in 800 editions and had in a year (1 July 1915 – 30 June 1916) sold 258 copies, the book wasn't sold out until 1924, the year Kafka died.
The Contemplation EP is the first solo ep by jazz pianist Mike Garson, and was released in 2006 via his Myspace site.
Contemplation is a type of prayer or meditation and may also refer to:
- Speculative reason
- Contemplation (Kafka), a sequence of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka
- Contemplation EP, a Mike Garson album
- Contemplations (poem), a poem by Anne Bradstreet
- Contemplations, a series of exercises in the Amitayurdhyana Sutra
Usage examples of "contemplation".
However, the final decision to write is made above all as a means to achieve permanently the state of ataraxia that he experiences only in moments of pure aesthetic contemplation.
General Aur made an expansive gesture with one hand, then resumed his satisfied contemplation of the stars, only occasionally glancing over his shoulder at the other men in the office.
After serving in his youth as a samurai retainer, Toju denounced the rigidities of such service and retired at the early age of twenty-six to a life of study and contemplation at his birthplace on Lake Biwa in Omi Province.
I lie as lies yon placid Brandywine, Holding the hills and heavens in my heart For contemplation.
No adequate study of contemplation can be conducted without a thorough investigation of its broader context of contemplative training as a whole.
His closest friend, Nathaniel Bar Tholomew of Cana, sat beside him, deep in contemplation.
Orient may appear in all its realistic detail, in Chateaubriand the ego dissolves itself in the contemplation of wonders it creates, and then is reborn, stronger than ever, more able to savor its powers and enjoy its interpretations.
To him the contemplation of the Future lets in light upon the Present, and develops the higher portions of his nature.
After a moment of contemplation of what they had hidden he dropped the rags--or rather threw them from him with a violent gesture --got up and came back to Domini, and looked at her without speaking.
He released the image and headed out toward the emptiest quarter where only a few people sat deep in their own contemplation.
Wisdom, which consists in the contemplation of all that exists in the Intellectual-Principle, and as the immediate presence of the Intellectual-Principle itself.
As they glided toward the red-shaded sands of the plain, Firebird withdrew into a gray haze of contemplation, staring out the viewport.
But in his phases of contemplation the sense of fleetingness would enter deeply into his mind, so that at all times the physical features of the planet, the woods, the hills, the sea, affected him with an added poignancy.
There had once been eighteen schools of Hinayana teaching -- all of which had dealt with Buddha as a teacher and urged contemplation and study of his teachings rather than worship of him -- but by the time of the Big Mistake, only one of those schools survived, the Theravada, and that only in remote sections of disease- and famine-ravaged Sri Lanka and Thailand, two political provinces of Old Earth.
Principles of this order, dwelling There, are as it were visible images protected from themselves, so that all becomes an object of contemplation to contemplators immeasurably blessed.