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Given to consideration or to sober reflection; regardful of consequences or circumstances; circumspect; careful; esp. careful of the rights, claims, and feelings of other. Of dauntless courage and considerate pride. Milton. considerate, and careful of his people. Dryden. The wisest and most considerate men in the world…

The act or process of considering; continuous careful thought; examination; contemplation; deliberation; attention. Let us think with consideration. Sir P. Sidney. Consideration, like an angel, came. Shak.

Considerate; careful; thoughtful. [Archaic] I love to be considerative. B. Jonson.

One who considers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.

With consideration or deliberation.

A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. [Eng.] W. Black. Blackmore.

A region of country having covers; a hunting country.

See Crown office.

Desirable. [R.] "Good and desiderable things." Holland.

See Desideratum.

dness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward.

Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [R.] Jeffrey.

Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.

Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.

A crystallized variety of pyroxene, of a clear, grayish green color; mussite.

Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion. I. Taylor. It is the dissidence of dissent. Burke.

No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia).

In a dissident manner.

A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement.