cogitation

It’s clear that she, like so many others, feels that blacks are lacking something in cogitation.

The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010

Reply Obj. 1: According to Richard of St. Victor "cogitation" would seem to regard the consideration of the many things from which a person intends to gather one simple truth.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Oh, there is material in plenty for the cogitation of any philosopher on a windjammer in mutiny in this Year of our Lord 1913.

CHAPTER XLVIII 2010

As Dick Forrest had taught them, the minutes spent with him were not minutes of cogitation.

CHAPTER IV 2010

The “leaders,” or main articles, tend to “urge” politicians to solve complex problems, as if the key to, say, reconstituting the global banking system were but a simple act of cogitation away.

The Newsweekly’s Last Stand 2009

"Fifteen years," he said, and returned to his tremendous cogitation.

CHAPTER 22 2010

The “leaders,” or main articles, tend to “urge” politicians to solve complex problems, as if the key to, say, reconstituting the global banking system were but a simple act of cogitation away.

The Newsweekly’s Last Stand 2009

Peter Winn lay back comfortably in a library chair, with closed eyes, deep in the cogitation of a scheme of campaign destined in the near future to make a certain coterie of hostile financiers sit up.

Winged Blackmail 2010

The garish colors, the bawling kids, the irritating and distracting music and the inedible snacks make it no place for conversation or cogitation.

Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks 2009

And when he chose to speak a harsh thought, it was ten-fold harsher than ordinarily, because it seemed to proceed out of such profundity of cogitation, because it was as prodigiously deliberate in its incubation as it was in its enunciation.

CHAPTER XII 2010