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Perpend

[pər-PEND]

Part of speech: verb

Origin: Latin, 15th century

1.

(Archaic) To ponder, consider.

Examples of Perpend in a sentence

"My favorite time to perpend life’s mysteries is on long forest walks."

"Leonard’s favorite part of college was having time to perpend subjects he might otherwise have ignored."

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