1. Contemplation of See full entry Word Origin Middle English: from Old French, from Latin contemplatio(n-) , from the verb contemplari , based on templum ‘place for observation’.

2. Accomplice to See full entry Word Origin mid 16th cent.: alteration (probably by association with accompany ) of Middle English complice ‘an associate’, via Old French from late Latin complex , complic- ‘allied’, from com- ‘together’ + the root of plicare ‘to fold’.