perpension

English

Etymology

See perpend.

Noun

perpension (countable and uncountable, plural perpensions)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• nose-nipper