contemplant

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin contemplans (“contemplating”), present participle of contemplor (“I contemplate”).

Adjective[edit]

contemplant (comparative more contemplant, superlative most contemplant)

  1. (archaic) Given to contemplation; meditative.
    • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings:
      Contemplant Spirits! ye that hover o'er
      With untired gaze the immeasurable fount
      Ebullient with creative Deity!

Noun[edit]

contemplant (plural contemplants)

  1. (archaic) One who contemplates.

Catalan[edit]

Verb[edit]

contemplant

  1. gerund of contemplar

French[edit]

Participle[edit]

contemplant

  1. present participle of contempler

Latin[edit]

Verb[edit]

contemplant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of contemplō
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