cogitate
verb (used without object)
to think hard; ponder; meditate.
have cogitated
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present perfectof cogitate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Thus cogitated Archibald--that is to say, thus he might have cogitated, for there is no direct evidence of what passed through his mind.
From Archibald Malmaison by Julian Hawthorne
If without knowledge of terrestrial phenomena and their laws, Newton had attempted a theory of planetary and stellar equilibrium, he might have cogitated to all eternity without result.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
If we keep to what is contained in the conception, the judgement is merely analytical—it is merely an explanation of what we have cogitated in the conception.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
