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onlook en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From on- + look. Compare Old English onlēċ (“onlook, consideration, regard”).

Meanings

1. The act of looking on (something); observation.
   • The object of the onlook is taken to be more than physical, more than just sense-experience, therefore it is meta-physical. 1966, Baptist Historical Society, The Baptist quarterly, volume 21, page 103:
2. That which is looked at, regarded, or considered.
3. (rare) One's perspective or outlook.
   • This onlook is certainly foundational to Christianity. […] Religious belief is the conviction (or hope) that one's onlook conforms to an authoritative onlook, a divine onlook. 2004, Richard Briggs, Words in Action:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
on-look		alternative	lexicographic
onlooks	Number=Plur		lexicographic

onlook en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From on- + look. Compare Old English onlōcian.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To look on or look at; watch; observe; view; regard.
   • So they two fought for so long a time that those who onlooked were astonished at the strength and the courage and the endurance of those two champions, […] 2008, Howard Pyle, The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
onlooking	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
onlooks	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
onlooked	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
onlooked	Tense=Past		lexicographic
on-look		alternative	lexicographic