单词 | recogitate |
释义 | recogitatev. 1. transitive. To think over (something) again. Also with clause as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > reconsideration > think again [verb (transitive)] reconsider1571 recogitate1602 reponder1613 re-ruminate1617 rethink1656 remeditate1852 revisualize1896 1602 T. Lodge tr. Josephus Wks. 590 Mariammes sonnes succeeded their mother in her wrath, and recogitating what an impious act it was, they accounted their father as a mortall enemie. 1654 T. Blount Acad. Eloquence (1656) 75 The Soul by the memory tasts what it has taken in by the understanding, and gives it self more leasure to recogitate its pleasure. 1683 A. Marsh Confession New Married Couple Introd. 8 More seriously rememorate and recogitate what pleasures they injoied. 1777 Gibbons's Mourning Saint among Willows (rev. ed.) xxvi. 39 Recogitating, by certain reviews, the wretchedness of my state. 1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 385 A thesis found in the schools, recogitated by him,..seemed to justify and correspond to his consciousness. 1904 W. A. Ellis Life Richard Wagner IV. v. 187 If a theme did not quite content him then, he would recogitate it in his head while pacing up and down the room. 1993 D. C. Reece Rich Broth 119 So I recogitated the staff college question and came up with the obvious solution. 2. intransitive. To think over something again. Formerly also: †to reconsider, change one's mind (obsolete). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > reconsideration > think again [verb (intransitive)] rethink1509 revise1567 recogitate1603 revert1794 reimagine1825 the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's opinion [verb (intransitive)] bowa1000 forthinkc1380 to think again1493 recogitate1603 deflect1612 wheel1632 to turn round1808 to flop (over)1884 budge1930 1603 A. Willet Antilogie to Apologicall Epist. Pref. sig. *2 As the Church of England acknowledgeth Gods great goodnesse herein: so your Christian Maiestie shall do wel to recogitate with your selfe. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum ii. 29 He cites Origen saying, that Christ did in those words recall his desire, and as it were recogitate. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Recogitate, to weigh and consider in minde earnestly, to think and think again upon some thing. 1768 R. Carter Let. 10 Feb. in A. P. James Ohio Company (1959) 254 I beg leave to remark that the expected order issued on account of our own memorial: Can we consistently echo it, or recogitate anew, without considering the royal Order? 1932 H. Crane Let. ?Feb. (1965) 401 I had to spend the rest of the day and evening cogitating and recogitating. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1602 |
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