beponder

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English

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Etymology

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From be- (over, about) +‎ ponder. Compare bewonder.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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beponder (third-person singular simple present beponders, present participle bepondering, simple past and past participle bepondered)

  1. (rare, archaic, transitive) To ponder over or about.
    • 1911, The Book Buyer, page 221:
      Professor Gran's peculiar insight into the literary mind and its curious, often repulsive, peculiarities is singularly interesting, and casts an entirely new light upon the much bepondered Rousseau.
    • 2010, JR Christopher, The Ballad of the HMS Beagle:
      The court was still, the court was quiet,
      To let their king beponder: []

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