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incogitant, a.|ɪnˈkɒdʒɪtənt|
[ad. L. incōgitānt-em unthinking, f. in- (in-3) + cōgitāns, pres. pple. of cōgitāre to think.]
That does not think.
1. Thoughtless; unthinking; characterized by want of thought; inconsiderate.
1628Jackson Creed vi. x. §1 By the incogitant use of these and the like scripture phrases. 1679J. Goodman Penit. Pardoned ii. i. (1713) 138 A light incogitant young man. a1683Whichcote Disc. (1703) III. 194, I might have been incogitant all my days of these things, which when offered I know to be true. 1732Stackhouse Hist. Bible (1767) VI. viii. v. 512 So blind and incogitant that his Empress Messalina married herself to another man. 1893F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 16 Feb. 123/1 If the ruling of an incogitant autocrat is to be preferred to the warrant of good usage.
2. Not having the faculty of thinking.
1702Howe Living Temple i. iii. §12 Wks. 1724 I. 45 As mind is a cogitant substance, matter is incogitant. |