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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COGITATE, v.i. To think; to meditate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind
2: use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" [syn: think, cogitate, cerebrate]

Merriam Webster's

verb (-tated; -tating) Etymology: Latin cogitatus, past participle of cogitare to think, think about, from co- + agitare to drive, agitate Date: 1582 transitive verb to ponder or meditate on usually intently intransitive verb to meditate deeply or intently <cogitating on her career plans> Synonyms: see think

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. & intr. ponder, meditate. Derivatives: cogitation n. cogitative adj. cogitator n. Etymology: L cogitare think (as CO-, AGITATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cogitate Cog"i*tate, v. t. To think over; to plan. He . . . is our witness, how we both day and night, revolving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor. --Foxe.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cogitate Cog"i*tate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cogitated; p. pr. & vb. n. Cogitating.] [L. cogitatus, p. p. of cogitare to reflect upon, prob. fr. co- + the root of aio I say; hence, prop., to discuss with one's self. Cf. Adage.] To engage in continuous thought; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. --Bacon.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cogitates, cogitating, cogitated) If you are cogitating, you are thinking deeply about something. (FORMAL) He sat silently cogitating. ...to cogitate on the meaning of life. VERB: V, V on/about n • cogitation After much cogitation, we decided to move to the Isle of Wight.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Meditate, think, reflect, consider, ponder, weigh, deliberate, ruminate, muse.

Moby Thesaurus

cerebrate, conceive, conceptualize, entertain ideas, excogitate, exercise the mind, form ideas, give thought to, ideate, intellectualize, puzzle out, reason, reason out, sort out, think, think about, think out, think through