To look on Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions

1. . (a) To regard; to esteem.

   Her friends would look on her the worse. Prior.

   (b) To consider; to view; to conceive of; to think of.

   I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer. Dryden.

   (c) To be a mere spectator .

   I'll be a candleholder, and look on. Shak.