perpend
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Therefore, to begin his work the better, he requested a learned physician of that time, called Master Theodorus, seriously to perpend, if it were possible, how to bring Gargantua into a better course.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
To this, great chief, thy reason bend, And earnestly the truth perpend.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
I said, as soon as I have supt, I shall perpend if your proposal may Be such as I can properly accept; Provided always your great goodness still Remits the matter to our own free-will.'
From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Learn of the wise, and perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar- the very uncleanly flux of a cat.
From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William
Wherefore, reader, perpend the first "batch," and patiently await a second and a better.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
