re-consider

re-consider (third-person singular simple present re-considers, present participle re-considering, simple past and past participle re-considered)

1. Alternative form of reconsider.
   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 168–169:

     After wandering along the lane for two hours, giving way to every variety of thought; re-considering events, determining probabilities, and reconciling herself as well as she could, to a change so sudden and so important, fatigue, and a recollection of her long absence, made her at length return home; […]

   • 1868, Miscellaneous Documents, Read in the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, During the Session Which Commenced at Harrisburg the 7th day of January, 1868, Harrisburg, Pa.: Singerly & Myers, […], page 1124:

     September 30, 1864, rule to show cause why sentence in this case should not be re-considered. October 6, 1864, the court re-considered the sentence in the case of William Mulligan and Edward Russell, and reduce the imprisonment to six months, from date of former sentence.

   • 2011, Benjamin Isakhan, Stephen Stockwell, “Introduction: Democracy and History”, in The Secret History of Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 3:

     Following on, our collection re-considers the politics of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’, unearthing the remarkably complex deliberative mechanisms and elective practices at work within the various Islamic empires, as well as in medieval Iceland and Venice.