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noun 
  1. contemplate, Contemplation of or meditate, meditation upon one's navel.
    • 1975, Donald Watt, Aldous Huxley, the Critical Heritage, ISBN 0710081146, p. 308.
    • :Calamy alone is not debunked; and Calamy has defended and has set himself the ideal of free personal contemplation and recollection.
Etymology: From Ancient Greek (polytonic, á) (omphalos) "navel" and (polytonic, ) (skepsis) "thought"


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