perpension
English
Etymology
See perpend.
Noun
perpension (countable and uncountable, plural perpensions)
- (obsolete) Careful consideration; pondering.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- unto reasonable perpensions it hath no place in some sciences
References
- “perpension”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.