Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To take careful thought or think carefully about; ponder. synonym: think.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To think earnestly or studiously; reflect; ponder; meditate: as, to
cogitate upon means of escape. - To revolve in the mind; think about attentively; meditate on; hence, devise or plan: as, he is cogitating mischief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To think over; to plan.
- intransitive verb To engage in continuous thought; to think.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To meditate, to
ponder , to think deeply. - verb transitive To consider, to devise.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- verb consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is where we get the word cogitate [cogitare].
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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To assume is to cogitate is to choose, on whatever grounds and by whatever characteristics.
Salem-News.com 2009
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Most baseball players do not drop in the word "cogitate" into their casual conversations, but Dickey does such things apparently without self-awareness.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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But I don't want to push those ideas too far until I've had more time to cogitate on them.
Managing the Social Network raecarson 2009
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While the allies want to leave Afghanistan, the US cogitate send more troops.
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Now I'm going to cogitate a while, then post my thoughts about The End. See you later!
Stealth galley proofing is -- karenmiller 2009
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“Shall we have this out now or go our separate ways and cogitate upon the matter?”
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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“Shall we have this out now or go our separate ways and cogitate upon the matter?”
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Our mental processing time for this stuff is so glacial, we seem to need to cogitate about 50 years before going for mass transit, for example.
Ugly Townhouses and Apartment Buildings, begone! « PubliCola 2010
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Other remarks also illustrated the limits of the President's favored style -- one that might be described as "pause, cogitate, absorb, find middle ground" -- during a catastrophe.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Obama's Press Conference: You Can't Negotiate With Disaster 2010
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