To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
Milton
To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
Byron
We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.
To consider as a possibility.
A. Hamilton
There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
Kent
If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.