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upon wit'll care; to ponder) to examine; to Sift ; to 
iiudy : 
At our more confider'd time we’ll read, 
Anfvver, and think upon this buiinefs. Shakefipeare. 
To take into the view ; not to omit in tire examination. 
—It leems necelfary, in the choice of perfons for great 
employments, to confider their bodies as well £ts their 
minds, and ages and health as well as their abilities. 
Temple .—To have regard to ; to refpeil ; not to dei'pife. 
—Let us confider one another to provoke unto love, and 
to good works. Hebrews, x. 24.—-In the imperative mood 
it is a kind of interjection ; a word whereby attention is 
fummoned : 
Confider, 
Thy life hath yet been private, moll part fpent 
At home. Milton. 
To requite; to reward one for his trouble.—Take away 
with thee the very fervices thou haft done, which if I 
have not enough confide red, to be more thankful to thee 
Ihall be my ftudy. Shakefipeare. 
To CONSI'DER, v.n. To think maturely; not to 
judge haftily or ralhly.—None conjidereth in his heart, 
neither is there knowledge nor underftanding. Ifaiah, xliv. 
1.—To deliberate ; to work in the mind.—Such a trea- 
tife might be confulted by jurymen, before they confider 
of their verdiil. Swift .—To doubt; to hefitate : 
’Twas grief no more, or grief and rage were one 
Within her foul; at laft ’twas rage alone ; 
Which, burning upwards, in fucceflion dries 
The tezrrs that ftood confidering in her eyes. Dry den. 
CONSI'DERABLE, adj. Worthy of confideration; 
worthy of regard and attention.—Eternity is infinitely 
the mod confiderable duration. Tillotfon .—Refpeitable ; 
above negleit; deferving notice.—Men confiderable in all 
worthy profellions, eminent in many ways of life. Spratt. 
—Important; valuable..—In painting, not every aition, 
nor every perfon, is confiderable enough to enter into the 
cloth. Drydcn .—More than a little. It has a middle fig- 
nitication between little and great.—Very probably a 
confiderable part of the earth is yet unknown. Wilkins .— 
Every cough, though fevere, and of fome confiderable 
continuance, is not of a confumptive nature, nor prefages 
diftolution and the grave. Blackmore. 
CONSI'DERABLENESS, fi. Importance; dignity; 
moment ; value ; defert; a claim to notice.—.We mu ft 
not always meafure the confiderablencfs of things by their 
moll obvious and immediate ufefulnefs, but by their ftt- 
nefs to make or contribute to the difeovery of things 
highly ufeful. Boyle. 
CONSI'DER ABLY, adv. In a degree deferving no¬ 
tice, though not the highell: 
And Europe dill coifidcrab/y gains 
Both by their good example and their pains. Rofcommon. 
With importance ; importantly.—I defire no fort of fa¬ 
vour fo much, as that of ferving you more ccnfiderab/y 
than I have been yet able to do. Pope. 
CONSI'DERANCE,y; Conlideration; reflection; fo- 
ber thought ; 
After this cold confiderance, fentence me ; 
And, as you are a king, fpeak in your ftate 
What I have done that milbecame my place. Shakefipeare. 
CONSI'DER ATE, adj. [ confideratus, Lat.] Serious; 
given to confideration ; prudent ; not rafh ; not negli¬ 
gent.—.The expediency, in the prefent junilure, may 
appear to every confideratc man. Addifion ..—Having refpeil 
to; regardful. Little ujed .—Though they will do nothing 
for virtue, yet they may be prefumed more confideratc of 
praife, Decay of Piety .—Moderate ; not rigorous. This 
fenfe is much ufed in converfation. 
CONSI'DF.RATELY, adv. Calmly; coolly; pru¬ 
riently.—Circumftances are of luch force, as they fway 
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an ordinary judgment of a wife man, not fully and confi- 
derately pondering the matter. Bacon. 
CONSI'DER ATENESS,y. The quality of being con- 
fiderate ; prudence. 
CONSIDERAT ION, fi. T lie ait of confidering ; men¬ 
tal view ; regard ; notice.—As to prefent happinefs and 
mifery, when that alone comes in confideration, and the 
confequences are removed, a man never chufes amifs. 
Locke. —Mature thought ; prudence ; ferious delibera¬ 
tion.—Let us think with confideration, and confider with 
acknowledging, and acknowledge with admiration. Sidney. 
The breath no fooner left his father’s body, 
But that his wildnefs mortified in him : 
Confideration, like an angel, came, 
And whipt th’ offending Adam out of him. Shakefipeare. 
Contemplation ; meditation upon any thing.—-The love 
you bear to Mopfa hath brought you to the confideratipn 
of her virtues, and that confideration may have made you 
the more virtuous, and fo the more worthy. Sidney .— 
Importance; claim to notice; worthinefs of regard.—• 
Lucan is the only author of confideration among the Latin 
poets, who was not explained for the ufe of the dauphin ; 
becaufe the whole Pharfalia would have been a fatire 
upon the French form of government. Addifion .—Equiva¬ 
lent ; compenfation.—-We are provident enough not to 
part with any thing ferviceable to our bodies under a 
good confideration, but make little account of our fouls. 
Ray. —Motive of aition ; influence ; ground of conduct. 
—The confideration, in regard whereof the law forbiddeth 
thefe things, was not becaufe thofe nations did ufe them. 
Hooker .—He had been made general upon very partial, 
and not enough deliberated, confidcrations. Clarendon .— 
Reafon ; ground of concluding.—Not led by any com¬ 
mandment, yet moved with luch confiderations as have 
been before let down. Hooker. 
CONSIDERATION, fi. inlaw, is the material caufe, 
quid or pro quo, of any contract, without which it will not 
be effectual or binding. This confideration is either ex- 
preffed, as when a man bargains to give fo much for a 
thing bought; or to fell his land for one hundred pounds, 
or grants it in exchange for other lands ; or where I pro- 
mife that if one will marry my daughter, or build me a 
houfe, &c. I will give him a certain fum of money ; or one 
agrees for a certain fum to do a thing. Or it is implied, 
when the law itfelf enforces a confideration ; as where a 
perfon comes to an inn, and there Haying eats and drinks, 
and takes lodging for himfelf and horfe, the law prefumes 
he intends to pay for both, though there be no exprefs 
contrail for it ; and therefore if he discharge not the 
houfe, the holt may ftay his horfe; and'fo if a tailor 
makes a garment for another, and there is no exprefs 
agreement what he Ihall have for it, he may keep the 
clothes till he is paid, or fue the party for the fame. 5 
Rep. 19. Plowd. 308. 
Confiderations may be either as relating to contrails 
generally, or to deeds in particular. As to contrails, a 
confideration may be defined to be the reafon which moves 
the coutrailing party to enter into the contrail. This 
confideration mull be a thing lawful in itfelf, or elfe the 
contrail is void. A good confideration is that of blood 
or natural affeilion between near relations ; the fatisfuc- 
tion accruing from which, the law elleems an equivalent 
for whatever benefit may move from one relation to ano¬ 
ther. 1 Infi. 271. 1 Rep. 176. This confideration may 
fometimes, however, be fet afide, and the contrail become 
void, when it tends in its confequences to defraud credi¬ 
tors or other third perfons of their juft rights. But a 
contrail for any valuable confideration, as for marriage, 
for money for work done, or for other reciprocal con¬ 
trails, can never be impeached at law ; and, if it be of a 
fufticient adequate value, is never fet afide inequity : for 
the perfon contrailed with has then given an equivalent 
in recompence, and is therefore as much an owner, or a 
creditor, as any other perfon. 2 Com, 444. Roy’s Max. 87. 
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