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  • adjective rare thinking, that thinks

Etymologies

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From Latin, Present participle of cogitare. "to think"

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Examples

  • Nihil aliud dies noctesque cogitant nisi ut in studiis suis laudentur ab hominibus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [113] Facilia sic putant omnes quae jam facta, nec de salebris cogitant, ubi via strata; so men are valued, their labours vilified by fellows of no worth themselves, as things of nought, who could not have done as much.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Melancholia Erotica vel quae cum amore est, duplex est: prima quae ab aliis forsan non meretur nomen melancholiae, est affectio eorum quae pro objecto proponunt Deum et ideo nihil aliud curant aut cogitant quam Deum, jejunia, vigilias: altera ob mulieres.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • But the cogitant subject was reduced very much to the condition of a _tabula rasa_, and when Descartes proceeded to fill up the blank with a rediscovery on more scientific lines of the essentials of

    Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip

  • The existence of my Ego, of my cogitant self, is an inference which I am compelled to draw from the facts of my mental activity.

    Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip

  • Rex, quae in uita ursurpant homines, cogitant curant uident, quaeque agunt uigilantes agitantque, ea si cui in somno accidunt,

    Tarquin's Dream 1912

  • _You may also do a little word-formation of your own on occasion, and enact that a person good, at exposition shall be known as a_ clarifier, _a sensible one as a_ cogitant, _or a pantomime as a_ manuactor.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

  • Nam qui voluptatibus dediti quasi in diem vivunt, vivendi causas quotidie finiunt; qui vero posteros cogitant et memoriam sui operibus extendunt, his nulla mors non repentina est, ut quæ semper inchoatum aliquid abrumpat. '

    Historical and Political Essays William Edward Hartpole Lecky 1870

  • Something like the same animadversions may be found in a useful book printed nearly two centuries before: "Non enim cogitant quales ipsi, sed qualibus induti vestibus sint, et quanta pompa rerum fortunæque præfulgeant -- sunt enim omnino ridiculi, qui in nuda librorum quantumvis selectissimorum multitudine gloriantur, et inde doctos sese atque admirandos esse persuadent."

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • Viri Sapientes ex omni ccetu, classe, atque ordine sic secum ipsi cogitant.

    Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792

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