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US
/ˌkɑdʒɪˈteɪʃən/
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[ UK /kˌɒdʒɪtˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kˌɒdʒɪtˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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a carefully considered thought about something
his cogitations were dutifully recorded in his daybook -
attentive consideration and meditation
after much cogitation he rejected the offer
How To Use cogitation In A Sentence
- With a diagram of these printed on the brain he had full command of the phrases which his excogitation had attached to them, and which embodied the ideas in perfect form. My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
- Burke not only is a positive promising political activist, moreover is "only for the substantive free realistic security" the political theoretician which but cogitation.
- Fortem reddunt animum et constantem; et pium colloquium non permittit animum absurda cogitatione torqueri. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving Little Dorrit
- The garish colors, the bawling kids, the irritating and distracting music and the inedible snacks make it no place for conversation or cogitation. Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks
- I'll do some cogitation and some preparation and some meditation also, and see if I can't come up with my own top five guilty pleasure songs.
- Yes," agreed the young man, though with a lilt of dubiety, and a frown of excogitation, as if he weren't sure that he had quite caught her drift. My Friend Prospero
- Sudat pauper foras in opere, dives in cogitatione; hic os aperit oscitatione, ille ructatione; gravius ille fastidio, quam hic inedia cruciatur. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Fifteen years," he said, and returned to his tremendous cogitation. CHAPTER 22
- Et quidem, si maxime nulla unquam prava cogitatio in corde hominis corrupti exoriretur, si nullum verbum otiosum proferretur, si nullum malum opus aut facinus designaretur: tamen natura nihilominus corrupta est per originate peccatum, quod nobis ratione corrupti seminis agnatum est, quod ipsum etiam scaturigo est omnium aliorum actualium peccatorum, ut sunt pravae cogitationes, prava colloquia, prave et scelerate facta. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
