beponder

verb

beponder

verb

Etymology From be- (“over, about”) + ponder. Compare bewonder.

1

Archaic, Rare To ponder over or about.

  • Professor Gran's peculiar insight into the literary mind and its curious, often repulsive, peculiarities is singularly interesting, and casts an entirely new light upon the much bepondered Rousseau.1911, The Book Buyer, page 221:
  • The court was still, the court was quiet, To let their king beponder: […]2010, JR Christopher, The Ballad of the HMS Beagle:

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