a. [ L. consideratus, p. p. ]
Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Æneas is patient, considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
The wisest and most considerate men in the world. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]
They may be . . . more considerate of praise. Dr. H. More.
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n. kind and considerate regard for others; consideration.
n. [ L. consideratio: cf. F. considération. ]
Let us think with consideration. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]
Consideration, like an angel, came. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The undersigned has the honor to repeat to Mr. Hulseman the assurance of his high consideration. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]
The consideration with which he was treated. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]
Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]
Lucan is the only author of consideration among the Latin poets who was not explained for . . . the Dauphin. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Consideration is what is done, or promised to be done, in exchange for a promise, and “as a mere advantage to the promisor without detriment to the promisee would not avail, the proper test is detriment to the promisee.” Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Considerate; careful; thoughtful. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]
I love to be considerative. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who considers. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. See Desideratum. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. desideratio. ] Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [ R. ] Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. desiderativus. ] Denoting desire;
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a. [ L. inconsideratus. See In- not, and Considerate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
It is a very unhappy token of our corruption, that there should be any so inconsiderate among us as to sacrifice morality to politics. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an inconsiderate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being inconsiderate. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. inconsideratio: cf. F. inconsidération. ] Lack of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. [ 1913 Webster ]
Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered;
a. [ L. sideratus, p. p. of siderari to be blasted by a constellation, fr. sidus, sideris, a constellation. ] Planet-struck; blasted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. sideratio. ] The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. [ Obs. ] Daniel. --