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rumination|ruːmɪˈneɪʃən|
[ad. L. rūminātio: see ruminate v. and -ation. So F. rumination, It. ruminazione.]
1. Contemplation, meditation.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. i. 19 In which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadnesse. 1658J. Robinson Endoxa iii. 26 If at any times..we sin, by rumination on the foregoing signs, we may draw fresh solace. 1740Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 267 Like the ideas of a delightful spring in a winter's rumination. 1744Thomson Autumn 574 From his bury'd Flock Retiring, full of Rumination sad. 1840Thirlwall Greece liii. VII. 15 To throw away life..in frivolous amusements, or useless austerities, or indolent rumination. 1864G. M. Musgrave Ten Days in Fr. Parsonage II. ii. 42 The mind wanders into endless rumination.
b. pl. Meditations, thoughts, reflections.
1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1651) 33 Ruminations of joy in the Memory..are good. 1797–1805S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 540 In my lonely ruminations I called to mind a coffer. 1816Scott Antiq. xxiii, Each being wrapped in his own unpleasant ruminations. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. ix, If the Arrowpoints had such ruminations.
2. The action of chewing the cud.
1658in Phillips. 1676Grew Musæum, Anat. Stomach & Guts vi. 25 The Voluntary Motion of the Stomach, is that only which accompanies Rumination. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. xi. (1739) 638 The very Act itself of Rumination is an excellent Provision for the compleat Mastication of the Food. 1800Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. Pref. p. vi, They [the Pecora] possess the remarkable power of rumination. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 151 When rumination ceases..this is a most serious business. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 473 Regurgitation and even rumination of the upcast food are curious features of some cases of nervously irritable stomach. |