单词 | cogitation |
释义 | cogitationn. 1. a. The action of thinking or reflecting; attentive consideration, reflection, meditation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > process of thinking i-thankc1000 thoughtOE cogitation?c1225 thinkinga1382 imaginationa1393 pansing?a1505 beating1606 brainwork1606 brain labour1638 headwork1642 thought process1850 thought-action1860 thought-production1881 nutting1951 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 212 Þreo degrez beoð þer in [sc. in lust]..þe forme is cogitaciun..Cogitaciuns beoð fleonninde þochtes þe ne lesteð naut. 1545 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. New Test. Pref. (1548) 12 Suspend both his cogitacion and his penne. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 70 b More is gatherde by cogitacion than if the thyng had been spoken in plaine woordes. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iv. 13 What by cogitation, wee find to be the cause of any thing. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 629 Fixt in cogitation deep. View more context for this quotation 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 17 He is always so wrapped up in Cogitation. 1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic xxvii. 229 The mind of its own power alone could by sufficient cogitation discover, etc. b. The faculty of thinking or thought. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] witOE thoughtOE cogitation1557 thinkingness1672 thinkfulness1674 thoughtsomeness1674 cogitativity1722 cogitancy1759 maiden-thought1818 cogitativeness1823 thought centre1846 thought-consciousness1901 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Eph. iv. 18 Having their cogitation darkened. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 427 The sight is in the eyes..vnderstanding and cogitation in the braine. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 273. 1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 368 The Mechanical Philosophers, that deny Cogitation, and even Sense properly so call'd, to Beasts. 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia II. xlvii. 156 It was never supposed that cogitation is inherent in matter. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxxi. 141 Speech and cogitation are thus the relative conditions of each other's activity. 2. a. An act of thinking or consideration, a thought or reflection. (with plural). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > product of thinking, thought > [noun] thank735 thoughtOE i-thankc1000 cogitation?c1225 pensee1474 pensée1886 the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] > act of cogitation?c1225 insight1390 view1567 volutation1623 ponder1689 ?c1225 [see sense 1a]. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 7v That your fasting may come of pure hert without eny euill cogitacions. a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 259 Such as have filthy corrupt cogitations in their hearts. 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War i. cxxxiii Being terrified with the cogitation, that not any of those which had been formerly sent had ever returned. 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iii. i. 30 Prethee leave me to my own cogitations. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 31 July (1965) I. 420 I spent several hours in..agreable Cogitations. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion v. 222 Our cogitations this way have been drawn, These are the points..on which Our Inquest turns. View more context for this quotation b. ‘Reflection previous to action’ (Johnson); a purpose or design. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose willeOE highOE thoughtOE intent?c1225 achesounc1230 attenta1250 couragec1320 devicec1320 minda1325 studya1382 understanding1382 suggestionc1390 meaninga1393 i-minda1400 minta1400 tent1399 castc1400 ettlingc1400 affecta1425 advicec1425 intention1430 purposec1430 proposea1450 intendment1450 supposing?c1450 pretensionc1456 intellectionc1460 zeal1492 hest?a1513 minting?a1513 institute?1520 intendingc1525 mindfulness1530 cogitationa1538 fordrift1549 forecast1549 designing1566 tention1587 levela1591 intendiment1595 design1597 suppose1597 aim1598 regarda1616 idea1617 contemplationa1631 speculation1631 view1634 way of thinking1650 designation1658 tend1663 would1753 predetermination1764 will to art1920 a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 45 Hyt [sc. he common weal] schold be the end of al theyr cogytatyonys conseylys & carys. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 4 The cogitations and purposes of your adversaries shall quite be dissolved. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 136 The King perceiving thereby, that his Desires were intemperate, and his Cogitations vaste, and irregular..began not to brooke him well. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlv. 355 The wicked Cogitations, and Designes of the Adversaries. 3. With of: ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] i-mindOE studyinglOE mindc1300 bethinking1340 poring1340 regard1348 weighingc1380 contemplationc1390 advisementa1393 deliberationa1393 advicec1405 reckoninga1413 visement?1414 considerancec1420 advisenessc1425 revolutionc1425 rewardc1432 mind-takingc1449 umbethinkingc1450 advisednessc1475 considering1483 beholding1530 meditationa1535 pondering1535 cogitation?1542 expending1545 ponderation1556 perpending1558 well weighing1566 surview1576 reflex1593 revolve1595 lucubration1596 agitation1600 perpension1612 vizamenta1616 pensitation1623 perpensation1623 perpendment1667 ruminating1668 commentationa1670 revolving1670 reflectiona1674 introspectiona1676 propendencya1676 ponderment1728 chawing1845 ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors i. sig. A5v Wherby mennys hartes be rauysshed..from the cogytacyon of all such things as thei ought to pray for. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §717 This Knitting of the Browes will follow vpon earnest Studying, or Cogitation of any Thing. b. A thought, conception, or idea of an object. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] > of something intention1340 cogitation1645 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 545 If the Spirite entreth into a cogitation of it owne death. 1645 J. Ussher Body of Divin. (1647) 39 Idolatrous cogitations of God. 1830 J. Mackintosh Diss. Progress Ethical Philos. 52 If we reflect on our own cogitations of these things. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?c1225 |
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