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VOCABULARY OF PHILOSOPHY – CONTEMPLATION

CONTEMPLATION (contemplor, means originally to gaze on a shire of the heavens marked out by the augur).—»Keeping the idea which is brought into it (the mind) for some time actually in view, which is called contemplation» (Locke, Essay on Human Understanding, bk. II. ch. X. sec. 1).