rare. [mod. L.; regular deriv. of contemplārī to contemplate: cf. certāmen, forāmen, etc.] Something that is contemplated; an object of contemplation.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iii. § 37. 160. To call this idea of Nature, θέαμα and θεώρημα, a Spectacle and Contemplamen.
1825. Coleridge, in Jrnl. R. Soc. Lit., Ser. i. II. 401. Introduce but the least of Real … into the sciential contemplamen or theorem, and it ceases to be Science. Ibid. (a. 1834), Lit. Rem., II. 355.
