reconsider

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RECONSID'ER, verb transitive [re and consider.] 1. To consider again; to turn in the mind again; to review. 2. To annul; to take into consideration a second time and rescind; as, to reconsider a motion in a legislative body; to reconsider a vote. The vote has been reconsidered, that is, rescinded.
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