PONDER Copy link • PONDERcontemplari animo, or animo et cogitatione: considerare secum in animo: contemplari: considerare; (The words are found in this connection and order.) contemplari et considerare: referre animum ad aliquid (to turn one’s mind to): lustrare animo or ratione animoque (as it were, to review with the mind): circumspicere mente (to examine thoroughly): expendere, perpendere (to weigh). To ponder as accurately and carefully as possible, aliquid quam maxime intentis oculis, ut aiunt, acerrime contemplari.