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cogitative

[koj-i-tey-tiv]
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adjective
  1. meditating; contemplating: The cogitative faculty distinguishes humans from animals.
  2. given to meditation; thoughtful: The leaders sat in cogitative silence.
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Origin of cogitative

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin cōgitātīvus, equivalent to cōgitāt(us) (see cogitate) + -īvus -ive
Related formscog·i·ta·tive·ly, adverbcog·i·ta·tive·ness, noun
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Related Words

contemplativedeliberativemeditativeprobingreasoningreflectiveruminativethinkingcontemplating

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Historical Examples

  • Both were self-taught, but one was intensely active, the other cogitative.

    Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887

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  • Mr. Rooper walked back to the tavern in a  cogitative state of mind.

    A Chosen Few

    Frank R. Stockton

  • The antithesis would be better expressed in many cases, by the words objective and mental, or objective and cogitative.

  • The discriminate procedure, manifestable by the instruments of knowledge, is called the cogitative.

  • The practical intellect is again divided into the cogitative and the technological.

British Dictionary definitions for cogitative

cogitative

adjective
  1. capable of thinking
  2. thoughtful
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Derived Formscogitatively, adverbcogitativeness, noun
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Word Origin and History for cogitative

adj.

late 15c., from Old French cogitatif (14c.), from Medieval Latin cogitativus, from Latin cogitare (see cogitation).

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