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▪ I. † ˈponder, n.1 Obs.
[f. ponder v. to weigh, or ? immed. f. L. pondus, ponder- weight. (No corresponding n. is recorded in F.)]
Weight, heaviness; in quot. 1613, a heavy blow.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. Theat. Chem. Brit. (1652) 58 For God made all things, and set it sure, In Number, Ponder, and in Measure. 1613Heywood Silver Age iii. i. Wks. 1874 III. 142 Il'e lay so huge a ponder on thy skull. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ix. (1626) 175 The rock..By his owne ponder firmely fortifi'd. 1631J. Done Polydoron 201 To sustaine the bodies ponder and grossnesse.
▪ II. ponder, n.2 rare.
[f. ponder v.]
An act of pondering (or ? something to ponder on).
1788F. Burney Diary 11 Jan., He..soon after took his leave, not without one little flight to give me for a ponder. 1970[see come v. 74 m]. 1976T. McClure Rogue Eagle iv. 66 The obese sunbather..went away to think about it. Buchanan had a bit of a ponder himself.
▪ III. ponder, -dre, n.3
see pounder1.
▪ IV. ponder, v.|ˈpɒndə(r)|
Also 4 poundre, pundre, 4–6 pondre, 5 -yr, punder (also 9 dial.), 6 pondur.
[ME. a. OF. ponder-er (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), F. pondérer to weigh, poise, ad. L. ponderāre to weigh, f. pondus, ponder- weight.]
†1. trans. To ascertain the weight of; to weigh. In quot. c 1470 absol. Also fig. Obs.
c1470Harding Chron. cxvi. viii, Vnegally he pondred then and peysed. 1532Frith Mirror Wks. (1829) 263 If all men living were pondered in one balance. 1547Boorde Brev. Health Pref. 2 b, To ponder and way the dregges or porcions the whiche ought to be ministred. 1645Ussher Body Div. 203 A Rule, Line, Square, Measure, and Ballance, whereby must be framed, ordered, measured, and pondered.
†2. Of a thing: To weigh (so much), to amount in weight to. Obs.
1524in G. Oliver Hist. Coll. (1841) App. 17 On [chales]..all goolde, with the Patent of goolde ponderyng 15 oz. 10dwt. 1553Inv. Ch. Goods (Surtees, No. 97) 89 Two bells, pondryng by estymacion seven hundreds. Ibid. 92 One chalise of sylver, pondring iiij unces.
†3. To estimate or judge the worth, value, or amount of; to estimate, appraise, value. Obs.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 110 Þe date of Ihesu pundred, þat men tellis bi, A þousand & a hundred & sex & þritti. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 155 Eche man dede aught to be poundred or demed after þe entencioun of hym þat doþ. c1435B. Burgh Cato in Herrig Archiv (1906) CXV. 308 Peise nat the gifte, ne pondre nat the pris. a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 23 To pondyr the dayes of grete festes with the dayes of abstinence. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. I. 44 Vertues are not to be pondered by the sexe or kinde by whom they be done, but by the chaste and honest minde.
4. To weigh (a matter, words, etc.) mentally; to give due weight to and consider carefully; to think over, meditate upon.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 433 Ȝit þei pondren blasphemye in among þis apostasye. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 134 Consydre thys mater and ponder my cause. 1511in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 4 Y..pray yow iiij arbitrors to pondre the seying. a1662Heylin Laud ii. 244 The cause being heard, and all the Allegations on both sides exactly pondered, his Majesty..gave Sentence. 1697Dryden æneid i. 789 The modest queen..Ponder'd the speech, then briefly thus replies. 1832H. Martineau Demerara i. 13 Alfred pondered the matter as he went home. 1900Morley Cromwell v. iv. 418 He and the council had already pondered the list of members returned to the parliament.
b. with obj. clause.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 456 Þei ponderen wiþ þis suspending þat þey don it for riȝtwisenesse to teche curatis obedience. 1519Interl. Four Elements in Hazl. Dodsley I. 7 Which in his mind hath ofttimes pondered, What number of books..be made and imprinted. 1587Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 151 Pondring in his thought To howe extreme a poynt be wyle Of Rosmond he was brought. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 119 [He] at that very instant, was pondering only how he might save that monarch's crown. 1855Prescott Philip II, I. i. viii. 116 The government should ponder well whether the prize would be worth the cost.
c. To find or make out by pondering. rare.
1816H. Ker Trav. 117 Expecting he should have to ponder his way through wilderness on foot.
5. intr. To consider, meditate, reflect; to think deeply or seriously on, muse over.
1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 24 This tempest will not giue me leaue to ponder On things would hurt me more. 1697Dryden æneid i. 311 Pondering thus on human miseries. 1791Cowper Odyss. xx. 30 So he from side to side roll'd, pondering deep. 1832Tennyson Œnone 165 Here she ceased, And Paris ponder'd, and I cried, ‘O Paris, Give it to Pallas!’ 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge xxxi, Pondering on his unhappy lot. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet I. 10 A message from the dead, to keep and ponder over?
†6. trans. To support the weight or severity of, to bear. Obs. rare—1.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 217 For our faithe & fidelitee, He ponderite the rigore Off his passion.
Hence ˈpondering vbl. n.
1535Coverdale 2 Macc. xii. 43 He had some consideracion & pondringe of y⊇ life yt is after this tyme. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (title-p.) The unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter. |