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cogitation

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cog·i·ta·tion  (kj-tshn)
n.
1. Thoughtful consideration; meditation.
2. A serious thought; a carefully considered reflection.
cogitation
1. the act of meditation or contemplation.
2. the faculty of thinking.
3. a thought; a design or plan. — cogitator, n. — cogitative, adj.
See also: Thinking
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Noun1.cogitation - a carefully considered thought about something; "his cogitations were dutifully recorded in his daybook"
idea, thought - the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
2.cogitation - attentive consideration and meditation; "after much cogitation he rejected the offer"
study
lucubration - laborious cogitation
musing, reflection, rumination, thoughtfulness, contemplation, reflexion - a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
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She stopt to blush and laugh at her own relapse, and then resumed a more serious, more dispiriting cogitation upon what had been, and might be, and must be.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
After a night of grave cogitation he repaired to Kowsoter, the Pierced-nose chief, and unfolded to him the secret workings of his bosom.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
This appears to me true of his novels, which, with their vast variety of character and incident, are alike in their single endeavor to get the persons living before you, both in their action and in the peculiarly dramatic interpretation of their emotion and cogitation.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
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