Meditation, mental contemplation or concentration. Also formerly: †perplexity, puzzled condition of mind (obsolete). See also phrases 5.

The keeping of a subject before the mind; attentive thought, reflection, meditation.

The action or process of thinking deeply or carefully about a person or thing; serious consideration; thoughtful reflection. Without preposition.

gen. The action, or an act, of meditating; continuous thought or musing upon one subject or series of subjects; (a period of) serious and sustained…

Thoughtful abstraction; the act of meditating or pondering.

Without article: Contemplation of a profound, far-reaching, or subtle character; abstract or hypothetical reasoning on subjects of a deep…

A meditative person; a muser. Cf. studient, adj. 2. Obsolete.

An act or period of musing; a spell of thoughtfulness or reflection. Also (rare) as a mass noun: profound meditation or abstraction; musing.

Serious concentration of thought, esp. religious meditation; †conduct regulated by such concentration (obsolete).

The action of contemplating something; (also) a state of contemplation.

The action of revolving something in one's mind; meditation, contemplation.

The action of contemplating something (in various senses of contemplate, v.); contemplation; an act or instance of this.

The action of amuse, v.(in various senses); diversion, deception; preoccupation, musing. Also: an instance of this.

The action or process of meditating.

Mental view, insight; contemplation. Obsolete.

Meditation.

Musing, thoughtful reflection, absorption in thought. Also: an instance of this; a reverie. Obsolete.

= cogitabundity n. at cogitabund, adj. derivatives.

deep meditation, thoughtfulness.

An act of (continued or concerted) thinking.

Contemplation, meditation; = recollection, n.1 1.

= think, n. 1a.

Thinking, esp. of an unproductive or undirected kind; musing; (also) experimentation in an informal, tentative manner; (as a count noun) an…