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A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in S…

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A doing, making, or preparing.

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Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any…

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The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindi…

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A model or measure.

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Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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The state of being sane; sanity.

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The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

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Act of pointing out or indicating.

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A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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For which reason; so; -- used relatively.

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For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1.

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To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

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A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

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To determine calculation; to reckon; to count.

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See Cipher.

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To lead forth.

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To lead forth or out.

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To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.

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To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into…

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To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress o…

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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

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To lead in; to introduce.

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To bring on; to induce; to occasion.

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To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument.

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To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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To reason by means of syllogisms.

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To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

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Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision.

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Belonging to a close or termination; decisive; convincing; putting an end to debate or question; leading to, or involving, a conclusion or decision.

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Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.

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Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.

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of Find

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of Find

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To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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To shut up; to inclose.

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The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher form…

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A falling out, happening, or coming to pass; hence, that which falls out or happens; occurrence; incident.

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The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.

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Quality of being reasonable.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

Reason overlaps with think, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.