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Think   /θɪŋk/   Listen
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Think  v. t.  (past & past part. thought; pres. part. thinking)  
1.
To seem or appear; used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought. Note: These are genuine Anglo-Saxon expressions, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions me is in the dative case.
2.
To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. "For that I am I know, because I think."
3.
Specifically:
(a)
To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. "Well thought upon; I have it here."
(b)
To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. "And when he thought thereon, he wept." "He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?"
(c)
To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow. "Let them marry to whom they think best."
(d)
To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. "I thought to promote thee unto great honor." "Thou thought'st to help me."
(e)
To presume; to venture. "Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father." Note: To think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts preeminently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. Thinking is employed by Hamilton as "comprehending all our collective energies." It is defined by Mansel as "the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts,"by Lotze as "the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences." See Thought.
To think better of. See under Better.
To think much of, or To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly.
Synonyms: To expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe. See Expect, Guess.


Think  v. t.  (past & past part. thought; pres. part. thinking)  
1.
To conceive; to imagine. "Charity... thinketh no evil."
2.
To plan or design; to plot; to compass. (Obs.) "So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son."
3.
To believe; to consider; to esteem. "Nor think superfluous other's aid."
To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. (Obs.) "(He) thought not much to clothe his enemies."
To think scorn.
(a)
To disdain. (Obs.) "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone."
(b)
To feel indignation. (Obs.)


noun
Think  n.  Act of thinking; a thought. "If you think that I'm finished, you've got another think coming!" (Obs. or Colloq.)





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... second Anstice was nonplussed, then his face cleared. "But after all, if anyone—one of my patients, for instance, has received one of these charming letters, don't you think I shall find it out? You see, although the average 'decent man,' as you call him, holds firmly to the theory that the place for an anonymous communication is the fire, I'm afraid nine out of ten people can't help wondering, even while they burn it, how much truth ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... distinction. With the exception of Dante's Divine Comedy there is practically not a single book that has any title whatever to a place in the Literature of Power, a literature which many of us think the only thing in the world of books worth consideration. Great philosophy is here, and high thought. Who would for a moment wish to disparage St. Bonaventure, the Seraphic Doctor, or Aquinas the Angelic? Plato ...
— Immortal Memories • Clement Shorter
... sensations and gazed skyward. He expected to see Pant come crashing down to earth. He did not. There could be but one answer: he had leaped in midair for the underrigging of the cabin of the balloon and had caught it. What a feat! It made Johnny's head dizzy to think of it. He did not doubt for one moment that Pant would do it. But what could be his purpose? Had the balloon broken loose? Was it drifting free, a derelict? This he could not believe, for the thing had seemed to travel in a definite direction. Besides, if this was true, why the machine-gun fire? ...
— Panther Eye • Roy J. Snell
... a king," said the Cordeliers, "as the day after the taking of the Bastille; it is only for us to decide whether or no we shall name another. We are of opinion that the nation should do every thing by itself or by agents removable by her. We think, that the more important an employ, the more temporary should be its tenure. We think that royalty, and especially hereditary royalty, is incompatible with liberty; we anticipate the crowd of opponents ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine
... is absolutely necessary to those who would live within their means. Women are especially ignorant of arithmetic; they are scarcely taught the simplest elements, for female teachers think the information useless. They prefer to teach languages, music, deportment, the use of the globes. All these may be important, but the first four rules of arithmetic are better than all. How can they compare their expenditure with their receipts, without the knowledge of addition ...
— Thrift • Samuel Smiles


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