contemplativeness (kontemplativnes)

The state or quality of being contemplative. Mawkish sentimentalism and rapturous contemplative ne , that disdain common duties, find no nourishment or support in rabbinical theology. N. A. Rev. , CXXVI. 307. contemplator (kon'tem - plā-tor), n. [= F. con temp lat eur = Pr. Sp. Pg. con temp lad or = It. con temp lat ore , contemplator , con templar i , pp.con temp lat us , contemplate: see contemplate .] 1. One who engages in contemplation or reflection; one who meditates or studies. -2. One who merely observes affairs, without taking part in them. [Rare.] Some few others sought after Him, but Aristotle saith, as the geometer doth after a right line only, as a contemplator of truth; but not as the knowledge of it is anyway useful or conducible to the ordering or bettering of their lives. Hammond, Works, IV. 642. sensation or reflection it hath received. This is done in two ways: First, by keeping the idea which is brought into it for some time actually in view, which is called con temp lati on. Locke, Human Understanding, II. x. § 1. Were pure contemplation the busine of life, were it enough to think and feel about things, the logical end of it would be a self-annihilating ecstasy. Maudsley, Body and Will, p. 174. 3. Continued or steadfast thinking in general, without reference to a particular object; musing; reverie. Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him! Shak ., T. N., ii. 5. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation , She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings. Milton , Comus, 1. 377. IMG:content-1152.png:[blocks in formation] And that done euery man yaue hym to prayer, contem placyon, and deuocion. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 38. When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence; So sweet is zealous contemplation . Shak . , Rich. III., iii. 7. 5. The act of intending, purposing, or considering, with a view to carrying into effect; expectation with intention. In contemplation of returning at an early date, he left, leaving his house undismantled. Reid . IMG:content-1153.png:[blocks in formation] The starry arches of thy spacious temple. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Columnes. con temp or alt, a. [ con temporal is , contemporary, L. com- , together, + temporal is , tem pus ( temp or- ), time: see temporal.] Of the same time; contemporary. Bailey . contemporaneity (kon-tempō-rā-nē'i-ti), n. [= F.contempo ranéité = Sp.con temp or ane i dad = Pg. contemporaneidade , con temp or a neita (t-) s , con temp or ane us , contemporaneous: see contemporaneous .] The state of being contemporaneous; con temporarine . While on the one hand M. Mariette stoutly a erts that they [the monuments of Egypt] show none of Manetho's dynasties to have been contemporary, all other Egyptolo gers declare that they prove contemporaneity in several instances. G. Rawlinson, Origin of Nations, p. 28. contemporaneous (kon-tem-pō-rā'nē-us), a. [= F.contempo rain rain = Sp. Sp. con temp oráneo = Pg. It. con temp or a neo, IMG:content-1154.png:[blocks in formation] II. n.; pl. contemporaries (-riz). One living at the same time (with another). From the time of Boccace and of Petrarch the Italian has varied very little;. the English of Chaucer, their con temporary , is not to be understood without the help of an old dictionary. Dryden, Ded. of Troilus and Cre ida. Don Quixote and Sancho, like the men and women of Shakespeare, are the contemporaries of every generation, because they are not products of an artificial and transitory society. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 172. contemporize (kon-tem'pō-rīz), v. t.; pret. and pp. contemporized, ppr. contemporizing. [= Sp. con temp or izar = Pg.con temp or i sar; with added suffix, Mr. Carlyle has this power of contemporizing himself with bygone times. Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 258.