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Webster 1913 Edition


Cogitation

Cogˊi-ta′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
cogitatio
: cf. F.
cogitation
.]
The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.
“Fixed in cogitation deep.”
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cogitation

COGITATION

, n.
1.
The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.
2.
Thought directed to an object; purpose.

Definition 2024


cogitation

cogitation

English

Noun

cogitation (countable and uncountable, plural cogitations)

  1. (uncountable) The process of cogitating; thought, deliberation or meditation
  2. (countable) A carefully considered thought

Quotations

  • 1848 Basil Montagu - The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author by Basil Montagu - Page 212
    Aristotle saith well, "Words are the images of cogitations, and letters are the images of words"

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