Ruminate: alternatives and connections

To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronou…

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To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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To look into or within; to view the inside of.

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To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery.

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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

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The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.

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That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…

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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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of Eat

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

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of Question

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of Question

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Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

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Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

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The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.

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The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.

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The act of speculating.

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The act of speculating.

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To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to stud…

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To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

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To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.

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A thin, soft kind of muslin.

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A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

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To weigh.

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To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…

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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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