Definition of contemplation

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Contemplation (n.) The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.

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Contemplative :: Contemplative (a.) Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative..
Cogitative :: Cogitative (a.) Given to thought or contemplation.
Gymnosophist :: Gymnosophist (n.) One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature..
Quietism :: Quietism (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes..
Study :: Study (v. i.) Mental occupation; absorbed or thoughtful attention; meditation; contemplation.
Studies :: Studious (a.) Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade..
Cogitation :: Cogitation (n.) The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.
Unfold :: Unfold (v. t.) To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science..
Contemplance :: Contemplance (n.) Contemplation.
Contemplatively :: Contemplatively (adv.) With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.
Muse :: Muse (n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study..
Retrospect :: Retrospect (n.) A looking back on things past; view or contemplation of the past.
Run :: Run (v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
Theocrasy :: Theocrasy (n.) An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics..
Meditation :: Meditation (n.) The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.
Rest :: Rest (n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue..
Contemplation :: Contemplation (n.) Holy meditation.
Contemplant :: Contemplant (a.) Given to contemplation; meditative.
Theory :: Theory (n.) A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation..
Muse :: Muse (n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
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