reconsider (v.)

1570s, "consider (a matter) again, turn over in the mind again," a sense now obsolete, from French reconsidérer and probably in part a native formation from re- "back, again" + consider. Meaning "to consider (a decision) a second time with a view to changing it if doing so seems warranted" is by 1849. Related: Reconsidered; reconsidering.