look out Copy link Outline I. To take a view from a placeII. To use circumspection • look out or forth: I. To take a view from a place: prospĭcio, 3; frequent. prospecto, 1: to l. out from houses and windows, ex tectis fenestrisque prospectare, Liv. 24, 21 with acc. of direct object, Ov. M. 15, 842 Sall. Phr. he l.s out far over the deep, prospectum late pelago petit Virg. Aen. 1, 181 See also to foresee. II. To use circumspection: circumspĭcio, 3. v. to look about.