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cogitate, v.|ˈkɒdʒɪteɪt|
[f. L. cōgitāt- ppl. stem of cōgitāre to think. The latter is app. contr. for co-agitāre, f. co- together + agitāre, one of the senses of which is ‘to turn over in the mind, revolve, weigh, consider’; see agitate v. 6.]
1. intr. To think, reflect, ponder, meditate; to exercise the thinking faculties.
a1631J. Done Hist. Septuagint (1633) 101 (T.) As the life of the body is entertained in still cogitating. 1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. ii. xiii. (R.), For he that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth; and he that imployeth the faculty of his phansie also cogitateth, and he that reasoneth, doth in like manner cogitate or devise. 1848Dickens Dombey 59 Still cogitating and looking for an explanation in the fire. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies ii. (1875) 19 That lady..lay cogitating over the past evening.
2. trans. with object or object-clause. Hence passing into: To devise, plan.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. 780 (R.) We both day and night reuoluing in our minds did cogitate nothing more, than how to satisfie the partes of a good pastour. 1652C. Stapylton Herodian 62 By this his Dreame he Cogitates alone, He was Divinely called to the Throne. Mod. The man is cogitating mischief against us.
b. Philos. To think (an object), to form a conception of.
1856Meiklejohn tr. Kant's Crit. P.R. 50 The idea of a science of pure understanding and rational cognition by means of which we may cogitate objects entirely a priori. 1857T. E. Webb Intellectualism of Locke ix. 174 Admitting that we are necessitated to ‘cogitate’ the great Ontologic Realities, the German Philosopher [Kant] denied that we are able to ‘cognize’ them. |