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Today's Word "cogitate"

To think deeply or intently on

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cogitate \ KOJ-uh-tayt \ (intransitive verb) - 1 : To think deeply or intently; to ponder; to meditate. 2 : To think about; to ponder on; to meditate upon; to plan or plot.

"As she waited in the prison anteroom to be admitted, Bitsey read background file clippings from NEWS Magazine's morgue and cogitated on the idea of knowing one's exact date of death beforehand." -- Dewey Gram, 'The Life of David Gale'

 

Cogitate comes from Latin cogitare , "to turn over in one's mind, to reflect, to think, to consider," from co- + agitare , "to put in constant motion, to drive about," from agere , "to drive." It is related to agitate


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