ponderateadj.
/ˈpɒnd(ə)rət/, U.S. /ˈpɑnd(ə)rət/ Deliberate; careful, considered.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [adjective] > weighed mentally, considered
counterpoised1477
beholden1530
concoct1534
pensive1575
meditate1588
meditated1588
considered1604
ruminated1605
(crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692
thought-out1833
ponderated1892
ponderate1922
thought-through1922
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > [adjective] > prudent > duly deliberate (of persons) > of actions
mature1454
advisablec1456
deliberativec1487
considerate1572
well-considered1590
considerative1620
considered1889
ponderate1922
1922 Times 7 Oct. 11/2 It is a time for calm and ponderate consideration of the issues involved.
1970 P. O'Brian Master & Commander (new ed.) x. 257 The mature, the ponderate mind does not embark itself upon a man-of-war.
1999 Diversity & Distributions 5 282/2 The extraction..was made using ponderate percentages of the surface occupied by each shrub type.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
ponderatev.
/ˈpɒndəreɪt/, U.S. /ˈpɑndəˌreɪt/ Now rare.† 2. transitive. To estimate the importance or value of (a quality, subject, etc.); to appraise, evaluate, judge. Also intransitive. Obsolete.† 3. intransitive. To have weight or heaviness, to be heavy; to weigh, to gravitate. Also figurative. Obsolete.† 4. transitive. To weigh down, to press down or against. In early use figurative: to influence, bias. Obsolete.
1. † b. intransitive. In early use with on, upon. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To weigh (a matter, subject, etc.) in the mind; to ponder, consider, contemplate. Also occasionally intransitive. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
showeOE
i-mune971
thinkOE
overthinkOE
takec1175
umbethinkc1175
waltc1200
bethinkc1220
wend?c1225
weighc1380
delivera1382
peisea1382
considerc1385
musec1390
to look over ——a1393
advise?c1400
debatec1400
roll?c1400
revert?a1425
advertc1425
deliberc1425
movec1425
musec1425
revolvec1425
contemplec1429
overseec1440
to think overc1440
perpend1447
roil1447
pondera1450
to eat inc1450
involvec1470
ponderate?a1475
reputec1475
counterpoise1477
poisea1483
traversec1487
umbecast1487
digest1488
undercast1489
overhalec1500
rumble1519
volve?1520
compassa1522
recount1526
trutinate1528
cast1530
expend1531
ruminate1533
concoct1534
contemplate1538
deliberate1540
revolute1553
chawa1558
to turn over1568
cud1569
cogitate1570
huik1570
chew1579
meditatec1580
discourse1581
speculate1599
theorize1599
scance1603
verse1614
pensitate1623
agitate1629
spell1633
view1637
study1659
designa1676
introspect1683
troll1685
balance1692
to figure on or upon1837
reflect1862
mull1873
to mull over1874
scour1882
mill1905
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 347 Theire intencions be ponderate [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. i-weye; L. librantur] afore Allemyȝhty God.
1513 King James IV Let. to Henry VIII in E. Hall Chron. (1548) 30 The greate wronges and vnkyndnes done before to vs and our lyeges we ponderate.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 14v Thay..Ponderat weill the falt superlatiue.
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 127 If wee ponderate S. Lukes relation of his Agony aright.
1689 W. Jameson Verus Patroclus ii. 110 Other heathnish Philosophers, to whom the invisible things of God..were made manifest by the things that are made, being by them ponderated and contemplated.
1752–3 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 18 They is to ponderate how far they agrees.
1880 Times 24 May 5/6 Such details, duly ponderated, bring us face to face with principles and generalizations of the very widest scope.
1988 D. Suvin Positions & Presuppositions Sci. Fiction xiii. 190 Literal statements are both frozen into connotative univalency and ponderated into cognitive equivalency.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > think about, consider [verb (intransitive)]
thinkOE
thinkOE
bethinka1200
umthinka1300
to have mind ofc1300
casta1340
studya1375
delivera1382
to chew the cudc1384
to take advisementa1393
stema1400
compassc1400
advisec1405
deliberc1405
to make it wisec1405
to take deliberationc1405
enter?a1413
riddlec1426
hovec1440
devise?c1450
to study by (also in) oneself?c1450
considerc1460
porec1500
regard1523
deliberate1543
to put on one's thinking or considering cap1546
contemplate1560
consult1565
perpend1568
vise1568
to consider of1569
weigh1573
ruminate1574
dascanc1579
to lay to (one's) heart1588
pondera1593
debate1594
reflect1596
comment1597
perponder1599
revolvea1600
rumine1605
consider on, upon1606
to think twice1623
reflex1631
spell1645
ponderatea1652
to turn about1725
to cast a thought, a reflection upon1736
to wake over1771
incubatea1847
mull1857
fink1888
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) ix. xi. 448 They ordinarily ponderate and deliberate upon every thing more than how it becomes them to live.
1681 W. Dugdale Short View Late Troubles xxxvii. 435 He severely rebuk't him, for neglecting his Mothers Commands, and his Instructions which were seriously to Ponderate on what he had said.
1771 G. Washington Let. 9 July in J. C. Fitzpatrick Writings III. 52 I laid your first letter and proposals before her, and desired that she would ponderate well.
1879 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 49 387 Whatever the biped, who can foresee and ponderate, may think of the lot, and the future of the domestic Ruminants.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)]
talec897
ween971
takec1175
weigha1200
deem?c1225
judge?c1225
guessc1330
reta1382
accounta1387
aretc1386
assize1393
consider1398
ponder?a1400
adjudgec1440
reckonc1440
peisec1460
ponderate?a1475
poisea1483
trutinate1528
steem1535
rate?1555
sense1564
compute1604
censure1605
cast1606
cense1606
estimate1651
audit1655
state1671
balance1692
esteem1711
appraise1823
figure1854
tally1860
revalue1894
lowball1973
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 155 (MED) Everyche operacion or dede of man awe to be ponderate [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. poundred or demed; L. librari] after the intencion of the doer.
1644 J. Lightfoot Harmony Foure Evangelists: 1st Pt. 175 Confessing the unworthinesse of himselfe, and ponderating the inequality of the persons.
1668 P. Rycaut Present State Ottoman Empire (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A3 But your Lordship, who exactly ponderates the weight of humane Actions, acknowledges reason in all its habits.
1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives VI. xcix. 7 I besiege your most noble onnur to ponderate mercifooly of these thinks.
1868 Contemp. Rev. 9 39 Mr. Lowe ‘ponderates’ (as he says) education more by the value of the thing learnt than by the value of the process in learning.
1890 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 53 466 The working of the examiner's mind as he ponderates the ideal quantities of literary and scientific merit.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > have weight [verb (intransitive)]
ponderate1647
heft1851
the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > have weight [verb (intransitive)] > press downwards with its weight
ponderate1647
1647 J. Greaves Disc. Rom. Foot 14 We cannot have an absolute certainty, that water, or wine, shall in all places alike ponderate; by reason of the different gravity.
1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. ii. 103 The Ayr..also ponderates, and is heavy, in its own Atmosphære.
1698 W. Chilcot Pract. Treat. Evil Thoughts iv. 64 The soul..thereby..ponderates towards God.
1731 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 331 This must make it apparently..to ponderate less, as is the Case of Stilliards.
1789 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 3 We desire it may be granted..that things equally heavy, from equal lengths, will equally ponderate.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. xiv. 471 To ponderate or preponderate there.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] > exert influence upon
weighc1571
sway1593
subject1605
to have its end(s) upon1638
influence1658
ponderate1670
operate1674
to touch up1791
protocol1832
rig1908
society > authority > power > influence > have influence with [verb (transitive)] > turn (the balance)
cast1597
ponderate1670
1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 156 His opinion,..or secret affection, doth byas and ponderate his mind, more to one side than to the other.
1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 193 With Favour and Corruption in the Ballance, Ponderating the Scale, not as they ought, but as they will.
1775 N. D. Falck Philos. Diss. Diving Vessel 14 The upper column of water ponderating downwards.
1820 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 110 42 While the chest is in a sound state, a balance of atmospherical pressure ponderates against the external surface of its walls.
Derivatives
ˈponderated adj. rare
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [adjective] > weighed mentally, considered
counterpoised1477
beholden1530
concoct1534
pensive1575
meditate1588
meditated1588
considered1604
ruminated1605
(crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692
thought-out1833
ponderated1892
ponderate1922
thought-through1922
1892 Harper's Mag. Sept. 505/2 Sarcey's ponderated common-sense prose.
2001 Risks Digest (ACM Forum) (Electronic text) 20 Mar. If the ponderated (one target may be more important than another) targets destroyed represent..65% of the targets, NATO could be satisfied with this objective.
ˈponderating adj. rare
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > weight or relative heaviness > [adjective] > having weight
ponderating1671
1671 G. Thomson Μισοχυμὶας Ἔλεγχου 36 I usually æstimate that general curiosity of ponderating Mixtures to be an Argument that they are neither safe nor sufficient.
1893 Times 31 Oct. 3/1 A free and generous exercise of that ponderating influence of the Crown.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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