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Cogitate

verb

(past & past part. cogitated; pres. part. cogitating)

Consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind.

Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments. Synonyms: cerebrate, think.

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"Cogitate" Quotes from Famous Books

... action." A convenient phrase, whose convenience imposes perhaps oftener than may be imagined on persons of an unsuspecting turn of mind! And having accounted for Alresca's death to the Belgian authorities, I had no leisure (save during the night) to cogitate much upon the mystery. For I was made immediately to realize, to an extent to which I had not realized before, how great a man Alresca was, and how large he bulked in the ...

— The Ghost - A Modern Fantasy • Arnold Bennett

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