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A short narrative or tale, esp. one dealing with surprising or marvelous events.

A covering. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Quarrel; contention; contest. [Obs.] Contek with bloody knife. Chaucer.

To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden.

One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.

Contemptuously. [R.]

alify; to moderate; to soften. [Obs.] The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy. Johnson.

To temper; to moderate. [Obs.] Moisten and contemperate the air. Sir T. Browne.

Proportionate mixture or combination. "Contemperation of light and shade." Boyle.

The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. [Obs.] The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.

Contemplation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Given to contemplation; meditative. [R.] Coleridge.

ed attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, at least contemplate and admire, What I see excellent. Milton. We thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate. Byron.

n; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study. In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God. Milton. Contemplation is keeping the idea which is brought into the mind for some time actually in view. Locke.

A contemplator. [R.] I. Taylor.

Pertaining to contemplation; addicted to, or employed in, contemplation; meditative. Fixed and contemplative their looks. Denham.

With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.

The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness.

One who contemplates. Sir T. Browne.

The state of being contemporaneous. The lines of contemporaneity in the oölitic system. J. Philips.