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cogitation|kɒdʒɪˈteɪʃən|
Forms: 3 cogitaciun, 5–6 cogi-, cogytacion, -yon, 6 -tyon, 6– cogitation.
[a. OF. cogitaciun, -acion, ad. L. cōgitātiōn-em, n. of action, f. cōgitāre to think.]
1. The action of thinking or reflecting; attentive consideration, reflection, meditation.
a1225Ancr. R. 288 Þreo degrez beoð þerinne [in lust]..Þe uorme is cogitaciun..Cogitaciuns, þet beoð fleoinde þouhtes þet ne lesteð nout. 1545Udall Erasm. Par. Pref. (1548) 12 Suspend both his cogitacion and his penne. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 70 b, More is gatherde by cogitacion than if the thyng had been spoken in plaine woordes. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. iv. 13 What by cogitation, wee find to be the cause of any thing. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 629 Fixt in cogitation deep. 1727Swift Gulliver iii. ii. 184 He is always so wrapped up in cogitation. 1870Jevons Elem. Logic xxvii. 229 The mind of its own power alone could by sufficient cogitation discover, etc.
b. The faculty of thinking or thought.
1557N. T. (Genev.) Ephes. iv. 18 Having their cogitation darkened. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 427 The sight is in the eyes..vnderstanding and cogitation in the braine. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 271. 1685 Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. 368 The Mechanical Philosophers, that deny Cogitation, and even Sense properly so call'd, to Beasts. 1759Johnson Rasselas xlvii, It was never supposed that cogitation is inherent in matter. 1838Sir W. Hamilton Logic xxxi. (1866) II. 141 Speech and cogitation are thus the relative conditions of each other's activity.
2. An act of thinking or consideration, a thought or reflection. (with pl.).
a1225[see 1]. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 7 b, That your fasting may come of pure hert without eny euill cogitacions. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 259 Such as have filthy corrupt cogitations in their hearts. 1628Hobbes Thucyd. i. cxxxiii, Being terrified with the cogitation, that not any of those which had been formerly sent had ever returned. 1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode iii. i, Prythee, leave me to my own cogitations. 1718Lady M. W. Montague Lett. xlix. II. 56, I spent several hours here in..agreeable cogitations. 1814Wordsw. Excursion v. 474 Our cogitations this way have been drawn, These are the points..on which Our inquest turns.
b. ‘Reflection previous to action’ (J.); a purpose or design.
1538Starkey England i. ii. 66 Hyt [the common weal] schold be the end of al theyr cogytatyonys, conseylys, and carys. 1576Fleming Panoplie Ep. 4 The cogitations and purposes of your adversaries shall quite be dissolved. 1622Bacon Hen. VII (J.), The king, perceiving that his desires were intemperate, and his cogitations vast and irregular, began not to brook him well. 1651Hobbes Leviath. (1839) 642 The wicked cogitations, and designs of the adversaries.
3. With of:
†a. Thinking of or about, consideration of (anything). Obs.
b. A thought, conception, or idea of an object.
1542Brinklow Compl. i. (1874) 7 Wherby mennys hartes be rauysshed..from the cogytacyon of all such things as thei ought to pray for. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 545 If the Spirite entreth into a cogitation of it owne death. 1626Bacon Sylva (1677) §717 This knitting of the Brows will follow upon earnest Studying, or Cogitation of anything. 1645Ussher Body Div. (1647) 39 Idolatrous cogitations of God. 1830Mackintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. (1846) I. 77 If we reflect on our own Cogitations of these things. |