cogitate
verbUK /ˈkəʊdʒɪteɪt/ · US /ˈkoʊd͡ʒɪteɪt/
Etymology First attested in 1570; borrowed from Latin cōgitātus, perfect passive participle of cōgitō (“to think”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
1
To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
- 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.1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
- Think, ladies! Cogitate! Sharpen up the edges of your wit.1953, Robert Wright, George Forrest, Kismet:
1 more example
- As a theoretical physicist, Dirac didn’t need a lab to do his work; all he needed was a pencil, because his most finely calibrated instrument was his mind’s eye. When he was young, a teacher told him that she felt he was cogitating not in words but in “another medium of forms and figures.” He once described his own thoughts as essentially “geometrical.”2015, Steve Silberman, chapter 1, in Megan Newman, editor, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, New York: Avery, →ISBN, page 37:
2
To consider, to devise.
- Derived terms
- cogitatingly, cogitator, uncogitated, uncogitating
- Related terms
- cogibundity, cogitation, metacogitate