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9 words match “RECONSIDER”

RECONSIDER v. 2 definitions
To consider again; as, to reconsider a subject.
RECONSIDERATION n.
The act of reconsidering, or the state of being reconsidered; as, the reconsideration of a vote in a legislative body.
BETTER adv.
e favorable opinion of any one. -- To think better of (an opinion, resolution, etc.), to reconsider and alter one's decision.
MUST v.
to be necessary or essential to a certain quality, character, end, or result; as, he must reconsider the matter; he must have been insane. Likewise must the deacons be grave. 1 Tim. iii. 8. Morover, he [a bishop] must have a good report of them which are without. 1 Tim. iii. 7.
QUALIFIED a.
s passed by the legislative body, which bills therefore fail to become laws unless upon a reconsideration the legislature again passes them by a certain majority specified in the constitution, when they become laws without the approval of the executive. Qualified property (Law), that which depends on temporary possessi…
REDELIBERATE v.
To deliberate again; to reconsider.
REEXAMINABLE a.
Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story.
REVIEW v.
To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition.
SECOND a.
d thought or thoughts, consideration of a matter following a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. Dickens.