re-consider

A form of reconsider — To consider a matter again.

Meanings

verbre-consider (third-person singular simple present re-considers, present participle re-considering, simple past and past participle re-considered)

present singular third person re-considers · participle present re-considering · participle past re-considered · past re-considered

  1. alternativeAlternative form of reconsider.

    Following on, our collection re-considers the politics of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’, unearthing the remarkably complex deliberative mechanisms and elective practices at work within the various Islamic empires, as well as in medieval Iceland and Venice.

    2011, Benjamin Isakhan, Stephen Stockwell, “Introduction: Democracy and History”, in The Secret History of Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 3
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    After wandering along the lane for two hours, giving way to every variety of thought; re-considering events, determining probabilities, and reconciling herself as well as she could, to a change so sudden and so important, fatigue, and a recollection of her long absence, made her at length return home; […]

    1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 168–169

    September 30, 1864, rule to show cause why sentence in this case should not be re-considered. October 6, 1864, the court re-considered the sentence in the case of William Mulligan and Edward Russell, and reduce the imprisonment to six months, from date of former sentence.

    1868, Miscellaneous Documents, Read in the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, During the Session Which Commenced at Harrisburg the 7th day of January, 1868, Harrisburg, Pa.: Singerly & Myers, […], page 1124
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