The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deliberate \De*lib"er*ate\ (d[-e]*l[i^]b"[~e]r*[=a]t), v. t. To weigh in the mind; to consider the reasons for and against; to consider maturely; to reflect upon; to ponder; as, to deliberate a question.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: deliberate)
Usage examples of "deliberated".
He had visibly aged since he had helped remove the engines from the three colony ships and Lessa had noticed that the slow way in which he now moved was due more to the debilities of age than deliberated movements.
Then Zainal paused, and she sensed he deliberated on whether or not to continue as he stroked her head slowly.
Because I deliberated with Giskard Reventlov, and experienced the dawn era.
They could not find any humans to confer with as they deliberated about the Zeroth Law and made plans to divert all of history?
A Judiciary Act was deliberated and passed, establishing a federal court system, and set the size of the Supreme Court.
As the two scouts deliberated how best to proceed, the bands of red and gold that shone from the compound eyes of their victim gradually began to take on the blank brown tint of lifelessness.
This decree is more distinct, more maturely deliberated than the former.
It is very remarkable that Zosimus and Prudentius concur in asserting the fact of the question being solemnly deliberated by the senate, though with directly opposite results.
Our adventurer having deliberated upon the means of converting this animosity to his own advantage, saw no method for this purpose so feasible as that of making his approaches to the hearts of both, by ministering to each in private, food for their reciprocal envy and malevolence.