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incogitative, a. rare.|ɪnˈkɒdʒɪteɪtɪv|
[f. in-3 + cogitative.]
Unthinking; destitute of the thinking faculty.
1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. x. §9 There are but two sorts of beings in the world..which..we will hereafter call cogitative and incogitative beings. 1706Clarke Nat. & Rev. Relig. Pref. (R.), From my using the word mere Matter, he concludes that I imagine there is another form of Matter, which is not a mere, bare, pure, incogitative Matter. 1813Busby Lucretius iii. Comment. xiv, If the seeds of heat, air, and vapour are as positively incogitative as those of the body.
Hence inˌcogitaˈtivity (rare—1), the quality of being incogitative or without the faculty of thought.
1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. ix. 191 Is the same in effect as to say, that God may superadd a faculty of thinking to incogitativity. |