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/pˈɑndər/ Listen

verb

Ponder v. t. (past & past part. pondered; pres. part. pondering)

To weigh. (Obs.)

To weigh in the mind; to view with deliberation; to examine carefully; to consider attentively. "Ponder the path of thy feet."

Synonyms: To Ponder, Consider, Muse. To consider means to view or contemplate with fixed thought. To ponder is to dwell upon with long and anxious attention, with a view to some practical result or decision. To muse is simply to think upon continuously with no definite object, or for the pleasure it gives. We consider any subject which is fairly brought before us; we ponder a concern involving great interests; we muse on the events of childhood.

Ponder v. i. To think; to deliberate; to muse; usually followed by on or over.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ponder" Quotes from Famous Books

... with man's fall sexual desire appeared as the sign and seal of human debasement. This theory is poignantly set forth in Augustine's City of God. He furnished therein a philosophy for the monks, and doubtless his fourteenth book was well thumbed by those who were wont to ponder somewhat wistfully on one of the sins they had ...

— The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson

... to insist on the superiority of the Italian language for song, would do well to ponder these remarks of Liszt, who knew what he was talking about, as he spoke a number of modern languages fluently. And when they have done that, they should procure a few of Wagner's later vocal scores and note the extremely ingenious manner in which he has made ...

— Chopin and Other Musical Essays • Henry T. Finck

... away and leave the island vacant. Actually, it can't and won't be done. Theoretically, we should all of us get married young. We fall in love young enough. But, actually, we can't get married young, and don't. The reasons are given later. Meanwhile, just notice, and just ponder, the ...

— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine

... want you to ponder this story. I wish to say to the mother who has started out upon a career in life, who has prepared herself for teaching school, for a business career, for story writing, for millinery, for lecturing, or has perhaps graduated in a domestic science course, ...

— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... that the ant-hill had been abandoned by the termites. With a few thousands of these ants, it would have been uninhabitable. But, had it been evacuated for some time, or had the voracious newroptera but just quitted it? It was not superfluous to ponder this question. ...

— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne

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