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Show C O 2. To deliberate ; to work in the mind CoNSI'DERATE, adj. [confideratus, Lat. Widow, we will confider of your fuit And come fome other time to know our mind Shakefpeare's Henry V1 1. Serious ; given to confideration ; pru 3. To doubt; to hefitate Many maz'd confiderings did throng And prefs'din with this caution. Shak. H. VIIL Dryden's Fables, Preface people I grant it to be in many cafes certain, that it i fuch as a confiderate man may prudently rely an >T'was grief no more, or grief and rage were on ‘Within her foul ; at laft "twas rage alone ‘Which, burning upwards, in fucceffion drie ‘The tears that ftood confidering in her eyes Dryden's Fables ConNsI'DERABLE. adj. [from confide;. 3. Worthy of confideration ; worth regard and attention proceed upon, and hath no juft caufe to doubt of Tillotfon The expediency, in the prefent junéture, ma appea Spratt's Sermapns valuable CoNsI'DERATENESS, 7 /. [from confiderate.] 'The quality of being confiDisg derate; prudence ConsiDERA'TION. 7. /. [from confider. aids confiderable to him, who could command leDecay of Piaty gions of angels to his refcue In painting, not every action, nor every perfon is confiderable enough to enter into the cloth Dryden's Dufrefnoy Many, can make themfelves mafters of as con 1. The act of confidering ; mental view regard ; notice As to prefent happinefs -and mifery, when tha alone comes in confideration, and the confequence fiderable eftates as thofe who have the greateft porflz.z'di o71 tions of land are removed, a man never chufes amifs little. It has a middl 4. More than. fignification between little and great Let us think with confideration, and confider wit 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 Shzke[peare's Henry V Sfiderable thicknefs and folidity Burnet's Theory. of the Earth Every cough, though fevere, and of fome con. fiderable continuance, is not of a confumptive nature, nor prefages diffolution and the grave Blackmore 3. Contemplation thing deration, may have mad and fo the more worthy ment; value; defert; a claim to notice ufefulnefs, but by their fitnefs to make or contri the Lati Boyle trivial oecurrences, b and are forcibly impofed upon the company Gowernment of the Tongue [ fro thing ferviceabl as that of ferving you morxe canfiderably than I have been ye Pope able to do ConsIDERANCE 7. / After this cold .confiderancey fentence me And, as you are a king, fpeak in your ftat ce pl m a e l m th do ha a Ve Shake[peare's Henry IV fo th to our bodies under a good confi | 6. Motive of altion of conduct influence ; groun The confideration, in regard whereof the la forbiddeth thefe things, was not becaufe thofe na tions did ufe them [from. confider. Confideration ; reflettion; {ober thought was not explaine deration, but make little account of our fouls Ray on the Creation Foreigners can never take our bills for payment, though they might pafs as valuable confideLocke rations among. our own people 1, In a degree deferving notice, thoug not the higheft 1 defire no fort of favour {o much wh We are provident enough not to. part with an l&é['a 2: With importance; importantly. poets 5. Equivalent ; compenfation confider And Europe ftill confiderably gain Both by their good example and their pains. Rofcammon the more virtuous Sidney ufe of the dauphin; becaufe the whole Pharfali would have been a fatire upon. the French form o government Addifon's Freebolder they think acquire a confiderablencfs adv yo Lucan is the only author of confideration amon bute to. the difcovery of things highly ufeful Consi'DERABLY upon an 4. Importance; claim to notice; worthinefs of regard We muft not always meafure the confiderablenc/ of things by their moft obvious and immediat being theirs meditatio The love you bear to Mopfa hath brought yo to the confideration of her virtues, and that. confi Cons1'DERABLENESS. # /. [from confiderable. ] Importance ; dignity ; mo Their mof Locke 2. Mature thought ; prudence ; feriou deliberation Many brought in very confiderable fums of moClarendon ney Very probably a confiderable part of the earth i Wilkins clean.sh data import.tsv out README yet unknown Thofe earthy particles, when they came to b colle€ted, would conftitute .a body of a very con -flight an This {enfe i Bacon's Colours of Good and Ewil Chrift, inftead of applauding St. Peter's zeal upbraided his abfurdity, that could think his mea contraé bindeth. It is either exprefle as if a man bargain to give twen Hookér He had been made general upon very partial and not enough deliberated, confiderations. Clarend He was obliged, antecedent to all other confiderations, to fearch an afylum Dryden The world cannot pardoniyour concealing it, o || the (ame eonfideration Dryden thillings for a horfe; or elfe implied, when a man comes into an inp, :lnd taking both meat and lodging for hi houfe, the hoft may ftay his horfe Co Consi"DERER. 7z /. [from con za'er(?d[l man of refleCtion ; a thinker Circumftances are of fuch force, as they f{wa an ordinary judgment of a wife man, not fully an confiderately pondering the matter 1 am fo confideralle a man, thatI cannot hav lefs than forty fhillings a year. 4ddifs Frecholder [In law.] Confideration is the materia caufe of a contra&, without which Though they will do nothing for virtue, ye they may be prefumed more confiderate of praife Decay of Piety regardful to much ufed in converfation ConsI'DERATELY. adv. [from confiderate.] Calmly ; coolly ; prudently Men cenfiderable in all worthy profeflions, emi 8 Widerat on doker Littl refpe 3. Moderate; not rigorous 2. Refpe@able ; above negle& ; defervin notice did procure to be imnftituted felf and his horfe, without bargainin ufed Wilkins nent in many ways of life Addifon to every confiderate man of. 2. Havin Eternity is infinitely the moft confiderable duraTillotfen tion It is confiderable, that fome urns have had inferiptions on them, exprefling that the lamps wer burning Ufes, not thought upon before, be reafo;o:glr caufes of retaining tha which other ¢on Gdevas And unrefpeétive boys : none are for me That look into me with confiderate eyes Shakefpeare's Richard 11 ZEneas is patient, confiderate, and carcful of hi f r f b e b n i a a e i n c I will converfe with iron-witted fools Saift before they confidir of their verdi& 7. Reafon 5 ground of concluding.moye y a b Not l dent; not rath; not negligent Such a treatife might be confulted by jurgmen 3. Important CO CO with the hoft, if he difcharge not A vain applaufe of wit for an impious jef of reafon for a deep confiderer Rvliga Goveelrnment of the To Const'pErING C [Thisis akil:xdofch junétion : it had been more grammat cally written confidered 5 wi, French but confidering is always ufed.] If allow ance be made for It is not poffible to alt otherwife, conjfdurin the weaknefs of our nature. Spectator 1. To give to another any thing, with th ' 6 To CONSIGN. w. a. [confignoy Lat | right to it, in a formal manner; t give into other hands; to transfer {fometimes with 70, fometimes over 70 Men, by free gift, confign over a place to the Di vine worfhip Muft T paf South Again to nothing, when this vital breat Ceafing, configns me o'er to reft and death? Prior At the day of general account, good men ar then to be configred over to another ftate, a ftate o everlafting love and charity Atterbury 2. 'To appropriate ; to quit for a certai purpofe The French commander configned it to the-uf for which it was intended by the donor Dryden's Fables, Dedication 3. To commit ; to entruft The four evangelifts configned fo writing tha Addifan hiftory Atrides, parting for the Trojan war Confign'd the youthful confort zo his care Pope's Odyffey 7o Consi'cN. . 1. To fubmit to the fame terms with another 'This is not now in ufe Thou haft finith'd joy and moa All lovers young, all lovers muf Confign to thee, and come to duft. Shakefp. Cymb 2. 'T'o fign ;. to confent to N Obfolete A maid yet rofed over with the virgin crimfo .Sbakf/"oeare of modefty: it were a hard condition for a mai to confign to Consiena‘rion. z /. [from confign. 1. The a& of configning; the aft b which any thing is delivered up to an other A the hope of falvation is a good difpofitio towards it, fo is defpair a certain coufignation to Taylor eternal ruin g i 2 g a o f If we find that we increafe in duty, then w may look upon the tradition of the holy facra=mental fymbols as a diret confignation of pardon Taylor's Worthy Communicat Const'cNMENT. 7 /i [from ¢onfign. 1, 'The adt of configning 2, Th |