cogitatev.
/ˈkɒdʒɪteɪt/ 1. intransitive. To think, reflect, ponder, meditate; to exercise the thinking faculties.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > think [verb (intransitive)]
howOE
mintOE
thinkOE
panse1559
tink1584
excogitate1630
cogitate1633
intelligize1803
nut1919
cerebrate1928
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate, reflect [verb (intransitive)]
howOE
study?c1225
bethinkc1300
muse1340
recorda1400
imaginec1400
to take thoughtc1450
contemplaire1474
medite1483
remord1535
contemplate?1538
ruminate1547
meditate1560
scance1606
excogitate1630
cogitate1633
reflect1772
1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint sig. G7 As the life of the Body is intertayned in still Cogitating.
1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning ii. xiii. 117 For he that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth; and he that imployeth the faculty of his phansie also cogitateth; and he that reasoneth doth in like manner cogitate or advise.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) viii. 68 Still cogitating and looking for an explanation in the fire.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) ii. 19 That lady..lay cogitating over the past evening.
2.
a. transitive with object or object-clause. Hence passing into: To devise, plan.
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > consider, deliberate [verb (transitive)]
i-thenchec897
showeOE
i-mune971
thinkOE
overthinkOE
takec1175
umbethinkc1175
waltc1200
bethinkc1220
wend?c1225
weighc1380
delivera1382
peisea1382
considerc1385
musec1390
to look over ——a1393
advise?c1400
debatec1400
roll?c1400
revert?a1425
advertc1425
deliberc1425
movec1425
musec1425
revolvec1425
contemplec1429
overseec1440
to think overc1440
perpend1447
roil1447
pondera1450
to eat inc1450
involvec1470
ponderate?a1475
reputec1475
counterpoise1477
poisea1483
traversec1487
umbecast1487
digest1488
undercast1489
overhalec1500
rumble1519
volve?1520
compassa1522
recount1526
trutinate1528
cast1530
expend1531
ruminate1533
concoct1534
contemplate1538
deliberate1540
revolute1553
chawa1558
to turn over1568
cud1569
cogitate1570
huik1570
chew1579
meditatec1580
discourse1581
speculate1599
theorize1599
scance1603
verse1614
pensitate1623
agitate1629
spell1633
view1637
study1659
designa1676
introspect1683
troll1685
balance1692
to figure on or upon1837
reflect1862
mull1873
to mull over1874
scour1882
mill1905
the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] > think out or plan beforehand
purpense1450
prepense1509
premeditate?1526
precogitate1569
cogitate1570
predesign1630
preconsider1647
precontrive1671
preconfigure1809
predeliberate1989
1570 J. Foxe tr. Pope Adrian VI Epist. in Actes & Monuments (rev. ed.) II. 983/1 We, both day and night reuoluyng in our myndes, dyd cogitate nothyng more, then how to satisfye the partes of a good pastour.
1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. 62 By this his Dreame he Cogitates alone, He was Divinely called to the Throne.
1891 N.E.D. at Cogitate Mod. The man is cogitating mischief against us.
b. Philosophy. To think (an object), to form a conception of.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > conceive, form in the mind [verb (transitive)]
readOE
thinkOE
bethinkc1175
makea1400
imaginec1400
conceive?a1425
suppose1586
conceit1591
ideate1610
braina1616
forma1616
engross1632
cogitate1856
conceptualize1873
1856 J. M. D. Meiklejohn tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason 50 The idea of a science of pure understanding and rational cognition by means of which we may cogitate objects entirely a priori.
1857 T. E. Webb Intellectualism of Locke ix. 174 Admitting that we are necessitated to ‘cogitate’ the great Ontologic Realities, the German Philosopher [Kant] denied that we are able to ‘cognize’ them.
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