contemplativeadj.n.adv.

Brit.

/kənˈtɛmplətɪv/,

/ˈkɒntəmpleɪtɪv/, U.S.

/kənˈtɛmplədɪv/,

/ˈkɑntəmˌpleɪdɪv/

Forms: Middle English comtemplatyfe, Middle English contemplatief, Middle English contemplatyff, Middle English contemplatyffe, Middle English contemplaytyfe, Middle English–1500s comtemplatyf, Middle English–1500s contemplatif, Middle English–1500s contemplatife, Middle English–1500s contemplatyf, Middle English–1500s contemplatyfe, Middle English (1500s Scottish) contemplatyve, Middle English–1600s contemplatiue, Middle English–1600s contemplatyue, 1500s– contemplative, 1600s comtemplatiue, 1600s comtemplative, 1600s contemplativ.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French contemplatif; Latin contemplātīvus.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French contemplatif (French contemplatif ) (of a way of life) characterized by inward contemplation (late 12th cent. in Old French), meditative, reflective, dedicated to religious contemplation (14th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin contemplātīvus theoretical, speculative, in post-classical Latin also (of religious life) mystical (a636 in Isidore) < contemplāt- , past participial stem of contemplāre contemplate v. + -īvus -ive suffix.Compare Catalan contemplatiu , Spanish contemplativo , Portuguese contemplativo (all 14th cent.), Italian contemplativo (late 13th cent.). Specific forms. With forms in com- compare com- prefix. Specific senses. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin contemplativus person devoted to contemplation of the divine (6th cent.), member of a religious order that practises contemplation (12th cent.), contemplativa speculative philosophy (5th cent. in Augustine), life spent in religious reflection (14th cent. in a British source), Old French, Middle French, French contemplatif person devoted to contemplation of the divine, (specifically) member of an order that practises contemplation (13th cent.). In sense B. 1b after French †contemplatives, plural (1611 in this sense in Cotgrave). With sense B. 3 compare Middle French contemplatives, plural (end of the 16th cent. or earlier in this sense).

A. adj.

a. Given to contemplation or thoughtful reflection; engaging in contemplation; meditative, reflective.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [adjective]

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meditational1864

penseful1865

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [adjective]

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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 245 Þe yefþe of wysdom..þet þe holy gost yefþ to þe contemplatiue herte.

c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. l. 432 (MED) This hooly virgyn Kataryn..syttynge in hir stody Al contemplatyf.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. bj^v/1 The which beyng deuoute & contemplatyf wythoute cure to excersyse thoffyce royal of a kynge.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. vii. sig. f.iiii v These deuoute & comtemplatyf spyrytes.

1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xxxv. 199 Of melancholy persons, especially such as are most contemplatiue..are this wayes most ouertaken.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 18 This Letter wil make a contemplatiue Ideot of him.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 93 The Contemplatiue Atheist is rare..And yet they seeme to be more then they are.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 56. ⁋1 This ill Fortune makes most Men contemplative and given to Reading.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xlvi. 324 How far beyond itself doth it [sc. this reflection] plunge the contemplative mind!

1850 D. Masson in North Brit. Rev. Aug. 268/1 It is this tendency to relapse into a few favourite, and, as it were, constitutional trains of thought, that makes the contemplative character.

1891 Manch. Weekly Times 19 June (Suppl.) 1/2 I saw approach me the tall, dark man himself, looking cool and contemplative.

1908 F. C. Snell Nature Stud. by Night & Day viii. 287 To those of an even moderately contemplative nature there is no hour of the day as sweet and beautiful as evening.

1957 Southtown Economist (Chicago) 31 Mar. 7/2 Looking back over the long stretch of years in public office Harnew grew contemplative.

2017 Asia News Network (Nexis) 27 Sept. He is a contemplative child; his dark eyes are serious, brooding.

b. With of and noun or noun phrase indicating the thing contemplated: that reflects or meditates on a particular thing.

ΚΠ

c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies ii. i, in Anglia (1885) 8 151 Contemplatif of gostlynesse.

1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde i. x. 116 A certaine man, very studious and contemplatiue of the vanities of the world.

1670 W. Greenhill Sound-hearted Christian 168 That man that is most alienated from the world, and most contemplative of the Gospel, will have most of the mind of God and Christ in him.

1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 479/1 Thou better know'st t' employ the amusive hour Contemplative of nature's ample page.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 501/1 He found them [sc. the ancient writers] either too cold and definitive, or too devotedly contemplative of the beautiful.

1917 Philos. Rev. 26 125 The eternalist philosopher, unperturbed by mundane accidents, serenely contemplative of ‘a peace beyond all earthly victories’.

2005 K. Gilbert in Sexuality, Sport & Culture of Risk iv. 52 I would like you to be contemplative of the lives of the students who attend your own classes.

2. Of a way of life, philosophy, etc.: characterized by inward contemplation of a religious or spiritual nature, rather than by active engagement with the world. Also of a person, a religious community, etc.: devoted to or practising such contemplation. Opposed to active adj. 1a. contemplative life n. [after post-classical Latin vita contemplativa (late 5th cent.)] a life devoted to religious contemplation and prayer, esp. one lived in seclusion.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [adjective]

contemplativea1382

theorical1594

recollected1595

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [noun] > life of

contemplative lifea1382

contemplativec1450

recollection1576

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms Prol. 737 The lif of actif men, the spirituel beholding of contemplatif men.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 383 It is seid comunli, þat þes two wymmen ben two lyves, actif and contemplatif; þe first is Martha, and þe toþer Marie.

c1450 (?a1402) J. Trevisa tr. De Regimine Principum (Digby 233) f. 4 (MED) Philosofres distingueth thre maner of leuyng: voluptuose, politik, and contemplative.

a1500 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Royal) in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 24 Thou shalt medle the werkes of actife liffe with goostely werkes of live comtemplatyfe.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. F1 The Philosophers..wrangling, whether Vertue bee the chiefe, or the onely good: whether the contemplatiue, or the actiue life doe excell.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 122 I now feele that contemplatiue spirits are as restlesse as actiue.

1633 A. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Sprituall Director Disinteressed iii. xiii. 344 Persons..who onely knowing how to sing, should be better placed in founded and contemplatiue howses.

1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 200 He alleged that God had called him to a state in which the active and contemplative life are joined together.

1785 P. Ridpath in tr. Boethius Consol. Philos. 4 Contemplative philosophy is more noble than practical.

1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) Protestants..accuse contemplative orders of idleness.

1964 W. R. Brain Doctors Past & Present 125 Hugh Cairns..was an active rather than a contemplative man.

2002 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 27 July (Observer section) 8 The cloistered convent consists of 11 women who lead a contemplative life of prayer.

3. Involving, consisting of, or conducive to contemplation; characterized by thoughtful reflection.

ΚΠ

a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 3 (MED) Þei ben ful graciously disposid..to be parceners in þe hieȝste pointe of þis contemplatiue acte.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. aij/2 A werk wel contemplatyf for to lyue wel.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 14 Our Court shalbe a lytlle Achademe, Still and contemplatyue in lyuing art.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 These few observations..are as it were the burnishing of many studious and contemplative yeers.

1667 J. Denham On Cowley 4 Fixt and contemplative their looks, Still turning over Natures Books.

1717 A. Pope Let. 13 Sept. in Corr. (1956) I. 427 No lone House in Wales, with a Mountain & a Rookery, is more contemplative than this Court.

1787 A. Hilditch Rosa de Montmorien II. 14 To enjoy the delightfully contemplative prospect.

1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 275 The same sober, contemplative, deep feeling of the realities of religion.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxv. 350 Smoking a contemplative cigar under the clear starlight.

1939 D. Thomas Let. 14 Sept. (1987) 411 The Armed Forces are not conducive to the creation of contemplative verse.

2005 C. Brookmyre All Fun & Games until Somebody loses Eye (2006) 360 He tended to brood in self-indulgently contemplative silence.

†4.

a. Of learning, a discipline, etc.: based on reasoning or theory; theoretical. Opposed to active adj. 1b. Obsolete (historical in later use).

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the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > confirmation of hypothesis, theory > [adjective] > as opposed to practical

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academic1812

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rocking chair1911

unempirical1934

1563 R. Reynolds Foundacion of Rhetorike f. liv The other Thesis is a question contemplatiue, which the Grekes dooe call Theoricas, because the matter of them is comprehended in the minde.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §100 Mvsicke in the Practise, hath bin well pursued..But in the Theory..very weakly...We shall therefore, after our manner, ioyne the Contemplatiue and Actiue Part together.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. i. 6 All Arts and Sciences (whether active or contemplative).

1726 R. Blackmore Disc. Gout Pref. p. xvi Learning is divided into contemplative and active.

1830 W. C. Stafford Hist. Music xv. 166 Contemplative music, according to the system of Quintilianus, was that part of the science which defined the principles.

1866 N. Holmes Authorship Shakespeare v. 332 There was to be not only a contemplative science, but an active science pointing to practical uses.

b. Of a person: that engages in or tends towards theoretical, rather than practical thinking. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > confirmation of hypothesis, theory > [adjective] > of person: concerned with theory

theoric?1600

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theorizing1772

1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees To Rdr. sig. ¶4^v Some who have taught this Art..have beene in it..only Contemplative men, having little, or no Experience in it.

1662 R. Boyle Def. Doctr. Spring of Air Pref. sig. *2 in New Exper. Physico-mechanical (ed. 2) Except by some able Mathematicians and very few other contemplative men, the Doctrine of the Spring of the Air..is not yet sufficiently apprehended.

1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 2) I. 93 Being the work, not of a little Sophist, or contemplative Theorist, but of a Consular Senator..conversant in the greatest affairs.

5. With of. That looks or gazes at a person or thing. Now rare.Sometimes implying that the object of observation prompts reflection or meditation, and so influenced by sense A. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > looking at or beholding

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1814 R. L. Sheil Adelaide i. i. 3 An eye now sadly bent upon the earth, Now movelessly contemplative of heaven.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vi. 56 They became contemplative of the mud.

1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter I. i. 1 ‘It mun be a 'clipse, I think,’ said..the fisherman, contemplative of that awful horizon.

1991 S. Wade Christopher Isherwood ii. 26 Lily is shown as sadly contemplative of her own image in her mirror.

6. With of. That takes into account or makes provision for a future event, situation, etc.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [adjective]

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anticipative1797

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tense1821

prospective1850

at wait1873

1816 Ann. Reg. 1815 263/2 Sir John Nicholl was of a similar opinion as to their being merely memoranda, contemplative of some future testamentary disposition.

1884 Law Times 14 June 113/1 The words used are plainly contemplative of a contingency as to who would be the heir-at-law..at an unknown and future period.

1960 Polit. Sci. Q. 75 331 The eight ‘key bills’ the Committee relied upon for proof were..openly contemplative of war.

2016 Mondaq Business Briefing (Nexis) 24 Aug. Employers should be proactive in revising their policies to be..contemplative of any employment requirement that might affect transgender employees.

B. n.

a. A person who practises contemplation of a religious or spiritual nature, or who leads a life devoted to religious contemplation and prayer. Cf. active n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [noun] > person

contemplativea1425

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ascetic1673

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theoric1798

transcendental meditator1966

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 289 (MED) Þis Chirche shulde be maad of actyves and contemplatyves.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 23 (MED) Þei tokun actifis and contemplatifis, þat sterun to vertewe be þer two maneris.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) Prol. 4 The lyf of actyf men, the meditacioun of contemplatifs.

?1548 Ld. Berners tr. D. de San Pedro Castell of Loue sig. Lviii All the doctours and deuoute contemplatyues, coulde neuer speke nor prayse her as she is worthy.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Tt2^v Henoch..who was the first Contemplatiue & walked with God.

1652 J. E. Byfleet Briefe Explic. 560 Contemplatiues eleuated aloft by the wings of Praier and Meditation.

1710 Some Refl. St. Joseph 207 What he learn'd in Jesus's School, is not understood by the most elevated Contemplatives.

1866 P. Bigandet in tr. Life Gaudama (rev. ed.) 449 Contemplatives who have reached the first step of Dzan, or meditation.

1951 Times 2 May (Late London ed.) 8/5 Wittgenstein showed the characteristics of a religious contemplative of the hermit type.

2001 Guardian 8 Jan. i. 11/1 The bishop..acts as spiritual director for a number of contemplatives.

†b. Church History. A Dominican friar. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Contemplatives, certain Fryers of St. Mary Magdalens Order, who wear black upper garments, and white underneath.

†2. A life lived in secluded contemplation; = contemplative life n. at sense A. 2. Obsolete.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [noun] > life of

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contemplativec1450

recollection1576

c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) (1961) vi. l. 225 The Turtle by contemplatyffe For synne soroweth with waymentyng.

†3. In plural. Qualities associated with contemplation or reflection; matters relating to contemplation. Opposed to actives (see active n. 1b). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1595 A. Golding tr. J. Hurault Politicke, Moral, & Martial Disc. ii. i. 153 It is requisite by the way to speake a word of the contemplatiues [Fr. contemplatiues]; namely of Wisdome and Discreation.

1609 C. Tourneur Funerall Poeme sig. C3 All his industries, (aswell in actiues, as contemplatiues).

1671 T. Gale Theophilie 165 What a sweet composure, and concent is there of Contemplatives and Actives;..of Affabilitie, with Severitie; of Solitude, with Service and Activitie?

†4. A person who contemplates or considers something. Obsolete. rare.

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the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [noun] > one who contemplates

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a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 120 in Wks. (1721) II. Silk-worms and Spiders, and a thousand kinds, Of Insects..Work Wonders by Contemplatives admir'd.

†C. adv.

In a manner which involves contemplation or reflection; contemplatively. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [adverb]

contemplativelyc1450

contemplative1581

musingly1611

cogitabundly1659

cogitatively1731

meditatingly1753

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musefullya1810

speculatively1883

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 205 The argument of religion being vsed mostwhat contemplatiue, and in nature of opinion.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	contemplative
释义	contemplativeadj.n.adv. Brit. /kənˈtɛmplətɪv/, /ˈkɒntəmpleɪtɪv/, U.S. /kənˈtɛmplədɪv/, /ˈkɑntəmˌpleɪdɪv/ Forms: Middle English comtemplatyfe, Middle English contemplatief, Middle English contemplatyff, Middle English contemplatyffe, Middle English contemplaytyfe, Middle English–1500s comtemplatyf, Middle English–1500s contemplatif, Middle English–1500s contemplatife, Middle English–1500s contemplatyf, Middle English–1500s contemplatyfe, Middle English (1500s Scottish) contemplatyve, Middle English–1600s contemplatiue, Middle English–1600s contemplatyue, 1500s– contemplative, 1600s comtemplatiue, 1600s comtemplative, 1600s contemplativ. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French contemplatif; Latin contemplātīvus. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French contemplatif (French contemplatif ) (of a way of life) characterized by inward contemplation (late 12th cent. in Old French), meditative, reflective, dedicated to religious contemplation (14th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin contemplātīvus theoretical, speculative, in post-classical Latin also (of religious life) mystical (a636 in Isidore) < contemplāt- , past participial stem of contemplāre contemplate v. + -īvus -ive suffix.Compare Catalan contemplatiu , Spanish contemplativo , Portuguese contemplativo (all 14th cent.), Italian contemplativo (late 13th cent.). Specific forms. With forms in com- compare com- prefix. Specific senses. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin contemplativus person devoted to contemplation of the divine (6th cent.), member of a religious order that practises contemplation (12th cent.), contemplativa speculative philosophy (5th cent. in Augustine), life spent in religious reflection (14th cent. in a British source), Old French, Middle French, French contemplatif person devoted to contemplation of the divine, (specifically) member of an order that practises contemplation (13th cent.). In sense B. 1b after French †contemplatives, plural (1611 in this sense in Cotgrave). With sense B. 3 compare Middle French contemplatives, plural (end of the 16th cent. or earlier in this sense). A. adj. 1. a. Given to contemplation or thoughtful reflection; engaging in contemplation; meditative, reflective. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [adjective] thoughtfulc1175 contemplative1340 considerativec1449 musing1449 studient1532 pondering1566 contemplatory1576 speculative1578 considerate1581 reflective1581 theorical1594 theoric?1600 theoretical1608 meditative1611 thoughtsome1627 reflexive1630 reflecting1632 revolutive1637 cogitativea1639 thoughtive1654 lucubratory1656 thinkful1668 theoretic1701 ruminatinga1704 reflectious1715 ruminative1774 thinking1799 meditative1831 ruminant1849 meditational1864 penseful1865 the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [adjective] contemplative1340 thoughtfula1400 considering1483 revolving1597 deliberative1602 ponderative1610 reflexive1630 ponderous1632 reflecting1632 reflectivea1640 perpensive1647 balancing1850 meditative1876 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 245 Þe yefþe of wysdom..þet þe holy gost yefþ to þe contemplatiue herte. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. l. 432 (MED) This hooly virgyn Kataryn..syttynge in hir stody Al contemplatyf. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. bj^v/1 The which beyng deuoute & contemplatyf wythoute cure to excersyse thoffyce royal of a kynge. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. vii. sig. f.iiii v These deuoute & comtemplatyf spyrytes. 1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xxxv. 199 Of melancholy persons, especially such as are most contemplatiue..are this wayes most ouertaken. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. v. 18 This Letter wil make a contemplatiue Ideot of him. View more context for this quotation 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 93 The Contemplatiue Atheist is rare..And yet they seeme to be more then they are. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 56. ⁋1 This ill Fortune makes most Men contemplative and given to Reading. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. xlvi. 324 How far beyond itself doth it [sc. this reflection] plunge the contemplative mind! 1850 D. Masson in North Brit. Rev. Aug. 268/1 It is this tendency to relapse into a few favourite, and, as it were, constitutional trains of thought, that makes the contemplative character. 1891 Manch. Weekly Times 19 June (Suppl.) 1/2 I saw approach me the tall, dark man himself, looking cool and contemplative. 1908 F. C. Snell Nature Stud. by Night & Day viii. 287 To those of an even moderately contemplative nature there is no hour of the day as sweet and beautiful as evening. 1957 Southtown Economist (Chicago) 31 Mar. 7/2 Looking back over the long stretch of years in public office Harnew grew contemplative. 2017 Asia News Network (Nexis) 27 Sept. He is a contemplative child; his dark eyes are serious, brooding. b. With of and noun or noun phrase indicating the thing contemplated: that reflects or meditates on a particular thing. ΚΠ c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies ii. i, in Anglia (1885) 8 151 Contemplatif of gostlynesse. 1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Sinners Guyde i. x. 116 A certaine man, very studious and contemplatiue of the vanities of the world. 1670 W. Greenhill Sound-hearted Christian 168 That man that is most alienated from the world, and most contemplative of the Gospel, will have most of the mind of God and Christ in him. 1736 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 479/1 Thou better know'st t' employ the amusive hour Contemplative of nature's ample page. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 501/1 He found them [sc. the ancient writers] either too cold and definitive, or too devotedly contemplative of the beautiful. 1917 Philos. Rev. 26 125 The eternalist philosopher, unperturbed by mundane accidents, serenely contemplative of ‘a peace beyond all earthly victories’. 2005 K. Gilbert in Sexuality, Sport & Culture of Risk iv. 52 I would like you to be contemplative of the lives of the students who attend your own classes. 2. Of a way of life, philosophy, etc.: characterized by inward contemplation of a religious or spiritual nature, rather than by active engagement with the world. Also of a person, a religious community, etc.: devoted to or practising such contemplation. Opposed to active adj. 1a. contemplative life n. [after post-classical Latin vita contemplativa (late 5th cent.)] a life devoted to religious contemplation and prayer, esp. one lived in seclusion. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [adjective] contemplativea1382 theorical1594 recollected1595 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [noun] > life of contemplative lifea1382 contemplativec1450 recollection1576 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Psalms Prol. 737 The lif of actif men, the spirituel beholding of contemplatif men. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 383 It is seid comunli, þat þes two wymmen ben two lyves, actif and contemplatif; þe first is Martha, and þe toþer Marie. c1450 (?a1402) J. Trevisa tr. De Regimine Principum (Digby 233) f. 4 (MED) Philosofres distingueth thre maner of leuyng: voluptuose, politik, and contemplative. a1500 W. Hilton Mixed Life (Royal) in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 24 Thou shalt medle the werkes of actife liffe with goostely werkes of live comtemplatyfe. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. F1 The Philosophers..wrangling, whether Vertue bee the chiefe, or the onely good: whether the contemplatiue, or the actiue life doe excell. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. 122 I now feele that contemplatiue spirits are as restlesse as actiue. 1633 A. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Sprituall Director Disinteressed iii. xiii. 344 Persons..who onely knowing how to sing, should be better placed in founded and contemplatiue howses. 1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 200 He alleged that God had called him to a state in which the active and contemplative life are joined together. 1785 P. Ridpath in tr. Boethius Consol. Philos. 4 Contemplative philosophy is more noble than practical. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) Protestants..accuse contemplative orders of idleness. 1964 W. R. Brain Doctors Past & Present 125 Hugh Cairns..was an active rather than a contemplative man. 2002 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 27 July (Observer section) 8 The cloistered convent consists of 11 women who lead a contemplative life of prayer. 3. Involving, consisting of, or conducive to contemplation; characterized by thoughtful reflection. ΚΠ a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 3 (MED) Þei ben ful graciously disposid..to be parceners in þe hieȝste pointe of þis contemplatiue acte. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. aij/2 A werk wel contemplatyf for to lyue wel. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 14 Our Court shalbe a lytlle Achademe, Still and contemplatyue in lyuing art. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 These few observations..are as it were the burnishing of many studious and contemplative yeers. 1667 J. Denham On Cowley 4 Fixt and contemplative their looks, Still turning over Natures Books. 1717 A. Pope Let. 13 Sept. in Corr. (1956) I. 427 No lone House in Wales, with a Mountain & a Rookery, is more contemplative than this Court. 1787 A. Hilditch Rosa de Montmorien II. 14 To enjoy the delightfully contemplative prospect. 1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 275 The same sober, contemplative, deep feeling of the realities of religion. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xxv. 350 Smoking a contemplative cigar under the clear starlight. 1939 D. Thomas Let. 14 Sept. (1987) 411 The Armed Forces are not conducive to the creation of contemplative verse. 2005 C. Brookmyre All Fun & Games until Somebody loses Eye (2006) 360 He tended to brood in self-indulgently contemplative silence. †4. a. Of learning, a discipline, etc.: based on reasoning or theory; theoretical. Opposed to active adj. 1b. Obsolete (historical in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > confirmation of hypothesis, theory > [adjective] > as opposed to practical contemplative1563 paper1616 theoretic1617 considerative1677 theoretical1767 academic1812 moot1831 armchair1858 rocking chair1911 unempirical1934 1563 R. Reynolds Foundacion of Rhetorike f. liv The other Thesis is a question contemplatiue, which the Grekes dooe call Theoricas, because the matter of them is comprehended in the minde. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §100 Mvsicke in the Practise, hath bin well pursued..But in the Theory..very weakly...We shall therefore, after our manner, ioyne the Contemplatiue and Actiue Part together. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. i. 6 All Arts and Sciences (whether active or contemplative). 1726 R. Blackmore Disc. Gout Pref. p. xvi Learning is divided into contemplative and active. 1830 W. C. Stafford Hist. Music xv. 166 Contemplative music, according to the system of Quintilianus, was that part of the science which defined the principles. 1866 N. Holmes Authorship Shakespeare v. 332 There was to be not only a contemplative science, but an active science pointing to practical uses. b. Of a person: that engages in or tends towards theoretical, rather than practical thinking. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > confirmation of hypothesis, theory > [adjective] > of person: concerned with theory theoric?1600 theoretical1610 theoretic1641 viewed1641 theorical1650 contemplative1653 theorizing1772 1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees To Rdr. sig. ¶4^v Some who have taught this Art..have beene in it..only Contemplative men, having little, or no Experience in it. 1662 R. Boyle Def. Doctr. Spring of Air Pref. sig. 2 in New Exper. Physico-mechanical* (ed. 2) Except by some able Mathematicians and very few other contemplative men, the Doctrine of the Spring of the Air..is not yet sufficiently apprehended. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 2) I. 93 Being the work, not of a little Sophist, or contemplative Theorist, but of a Consular Senator..conversant in the greatest affairs. 5. With of. That looks or gazes at a person or thing. Now rare.Sometimes implying that the object of observation prompts reflection or meditation, and so influenced by sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > looking at or beholding viewing1563 beholding1594 intuitive1644 onlookinga1666 contemplative1814 1814 R. L. Sheil Adelaide i. i. 3 An eye now sadly bent upon the earth, Now movelessly contemplative of heaven. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. vi. 56 They became contemplative of the mud. 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter I. i. 1 ‘It mun be a 'clipse, I think,’ said..the fisherman, contemplative of that awful horizon. 1991 S. Wade Christopher Isherwood ii. 26 Lily is shown as sadly contemplative of her own image in her mirror. 6. With of. That takes into account or makes provision for a future event, situation, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [adjective] expectanta1425 prevenient1765 anticipative1797 anticipant1798 contemplative1816 tense1821 prospective1850 at wait1873 1816 Ann. Reg. 1815 263/2 Sir John Nicholl was of a similar opinion as to their being merely memoranda, contemplative of some future testamentary disposition. 1884 Law Times 14 June 113/1 The words used are plainly contemplative of a contingency as to who would be the heir-at-law..at an unknown and future period. 1960 Polit. Sci. Q. 75 331 The eight ‘key bills’ the Committee relied upon for proof were..openly contemplative of war. 2016 Mondaq Business Briefing (Nexis) 24 Aug. Employers should be proactive in revising their policies to be..contemplative of any employment requirement that might affect transgender employees. B. n. 1. a. A person who practises contemplation of a religious or spiritual nature, or who leads a life devoted to religious contemplation and prayer. Cf. active n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [noun] > person contemplativea1425 silentiary1611 contemplant1612 ascetic1673 theoretic1675 theoric1798 transcendental meditator1966 a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 289 (MED) Þis Chirche shulde be maad of actyves and contemplatyves. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 23 (MED) Þei tokun actifis and contemplatifis, þat sterun to vertewe be þer two maneris. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) Prol. 4 The lyf of actyf men, the meditacioun of contemplatifs. ?1548 Ld. Berners tr. D. de San Pedro Castell of Loue sig. Lviii All the doctours and deuoute contemplatyues, coulde neuer speke nor prayse her as she is worthy. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Tt2^v Henoch..who was the first Contemplatiue & walked with God. View more context for this quotation 1652 J. E. Byfleet Briefe Explic. 560 Contemplatiues eleuated aloft by the wings of Praier and Meditation. 1710 Some Refl. St. Joseph 207 What he learn'd in Jesus's School, is not understood by the most elevated Contemplatives. 1866 P. Bigandet in tr. Life Gaudama (rev. ed.) 449 Contemplatives who have reached the first step of Dzan, or meditation. 1951 Times 2 May (Late London ed.) 8/5 Wittgenstein showed the characteristics of a religious contemplative of the hermit type. 2001 Guardian 8 Jan. i. 11/1 The bishop..acts as spiritual director for a number of contemplatives. †b. Church History. A Dominican friar. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Contemplatives, certain Fryers of St. Mary Magdalens Order, who wear black upper garments, and white underneath. †2. A life lived in secluded contemplation; = contemplative life n. at sense A. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > contemplation or meditation > [noun] > life of contemplative lifea1382 contemplativec1450 recollection1576 c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) (1961) vi. l. 225 The Turtle by contemplatyffe For synne soroweth with waymentyng. †3. In plural. Qualities associated with contemplation or reflection; matters relating to contemplation. Opposed to actives (see active n. 1b). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1595 A. Golding tr. J. Hurault Politicke, Moral, & Martial Disc. ii. i. 153 It is requisite by the way to speake a word of the contemplatiues [Fr. contemplatiues]; namely of Wisdome and Discreation. 1609 C. Tourneur Funerall Poeme sig. C3 All his industries, (aswell in actiues, as contemplatiues). 1671 T. Gale Theophilie 165 What a sweet composure, and concent is there of Contemplatives and Actives;..of Affabilitie, with Severitie; of Solitude, with Service and Activitie? †4. A person who contemplates or considers something. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [noun] > one who contemplates Maryc1230 contemplatorc1443 theoric1594 muser1597 meditator1607 contemplant1612 contemplatist1634 theoretic1675 contemplativea1711 meditant1748 ruminator1758 meditatist1860 a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 120 in Wks. (1721) II. Silk-worms and Spiders, and a thousand kinds, Of Insects..Work Wonders by Contemplatives admir'd. †C. adv. In a manner which involves contemplation or reflection; contemplatively. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > [adverb] contemplativelyc1450 contemplative1581 musingly1611 cogitabundly1659 cogitatively1731 meditatingly1753 meditatively1790 contemplatingly1801 musefullya1810 speculatively1883 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 205 The argument of religion being vsed mostwhat contemplatiue, and in nature of opinion. 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