contemplant

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

contemplant (plural contemplants)

  1. (archaic) One who contemplates.

Catalan

Verb

contemplant

  1. gerund of contemplar

French

Participle

contemplant

  1. present participle of contempler

Latin

Verb

contemplant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of contemplō
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