cogitate
/ˈkoʊd͡ʒɪteɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.37 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth."
- "Think, ladies! Cogitate! Sharpen up the edges of your wit."
- "As a theoretical physicist, Dirac didn’t need a lab to do his work; all he needed was a pencil, because his most finely calibrated instrument was his mind’s eye. When he was young, a teacher told him that she felt he was cogitating not in words but in “another medium of forms and figures.” He once described his own thoughts as essentially “geometrical.”"
Etymology
Origin
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkoʊd͡ʒɪteɪt/
- British English: /ˈkəʊdʒɪteɪt/