consider

Verb

consider (third-person singular simple present considers, present participle considering, simple past and past participle considered)

1. (transitive) To think about seriously.
   • Consider that we’ve had three major events and the year has hardly begun.
   • How can you know everything about everything, if you won't consider any dissent?

   Synonyms:

   bethink, reflect, take, afterthink, agitate, call to mind, chew, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate

2. (intransitive) To think about something seriously or carefully: to deliberate.

   Synonyms:

   afterthink, agitate, bethink, call to mind, chew, chew over, chew the cud, cogitate, contemplate, deliberate

3. (transitive) To think about whether one will do (an action); to weigh as a possible course of action.
   • I’m considering going to the beach tomorrow.

   Synonyms:

   think of, bethink

4. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
   • Consider yourself lucky, but consider your opponent skillful.
   • I considered the pie undercooked.

   Synonyms:

   deem, regard, think of, account, appraise, count, esteem, see, censure, hold

5. (transitive) To look at attentively.
   • She sat there for a moment, considering him.
   • She considereth a field, and buyeth it.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 31:16

   Synonyms:

   regard, observe, attend, clock, give heed, heed, let in on, mark, mind, notice

6. (transitive) To take up as an example.
   • Consider a triangle having three equal sides.
   • Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37

   Synonyms:

   take

7. (transitive) To debate (or dispose of) a motion.
   • This body will now consider the proposed amendments to Section 453 of the zoning code.

   Synonyms:

   deliberate, bethink

8. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
   • He never seems to consider the feelings of others.
   • Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day / Was yours by accident.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

   Synonyms:

   take into account, hear

9. To believe or opine (that).
   • Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,[…].1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
   • What is clear is that the courts in both Alberta and Ontario consider that there must be some preliminary assessment of the evidence of alleged breaches of the relevant Act when considering whether a freeze order is justified at the investigation stage.2021 October 1, J. Susan Griffin, “Party A v. British Columbia (Securities Commission), 2021 BCCA 358”, in CanLII, retrieved 03 Oct 2021