Verb (used without object) : to cogitate about a problem. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to cogitate a scheme. From Dictionary.com.
They go about cogitating puns and inventing tricks. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
He was not listening, but was cogitating a project. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in 80 Days] Reference
‘Let me see,’ said the manager cogitating after dinner. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
Trix stared harder at the photograph, cogitating, bewildered. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Then he tossed the marble away pettishly, and stood cogitating. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] Reference
So I soon began meditating, and cogitating, and speculating again. From Wordnik.com. [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference
"I have been cogitating," said Easelmann, twisting his moustaches. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
His companion held her head on one side like a cogitating terrier. From Wordnik.com. [Cargo of Eagles]
I was, this very moment, cogitating to send my daughter to the capital. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
To her he would unfold the various plans he was continually cogitating. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Thus cogitating, Stackpole put on his wide-brimmed straw hat and went out. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
Arthur Gride was cogitating in the parlour upon what had taken place last night. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas Nickleby] Reference
Thus cogitating and talking, Sir Donald passes the time between London and Northfield. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
But I wonder about this (as I debate a happy vs. sad ending for a story I'm cogitating). From Wordnik.com. [Happy endings or sad endings?] Reference
"What is trawling, eh?" repeated the old sailor, humming and cogitating for a minute or so. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
"Humph!" muttered Captain Dresser, as if cogitating the matter and speaking his thoughts aloud. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
And he was still cogitating while Mason was exclaiming: “Then you admit that you knew her?”. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
The playwright has been called cerebral, but his mind is a cogitating heart; it lusts for ideas. From Wordnik.com. [What Happens When Spies Collide] Reference
His skull-pot, fairly boiling inside his crumpled Panama hat, was not cooled by this cogitating. From Wordnik.com. [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]
But old Roland, who had been listening and cogitating, suddenly hit upon the most probable solution. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre And Jean] Reference
Therefore, after cogitating the matter, I resolved to attempt the bridge, taking the risk of being seen. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
It's time to stop articulating and start cogitating on effective actions that we can all participate in. From Wordnik.com. [Sad Day? How About a Sad Six-and-a-Half Years] Reference
The sallow thing was doing more than cogitating; it was watching him, trying to calculate the depth of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Drawing of the Three]
He was cogitating as to what might happen to him in case his son failed, for he was deeply involved with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
At the gate he was met by a small boy of the family, who was evidently cogitating a matter of deep perplexity. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
Now a negation cannot be cogitated as determined, without cogitating at the same time the opposite affirmation. From Wordnik.com. [Blowing Hot and Cold] Reference
On this, however, he faced to the window again and presently reached it with his vague, restless, cogitating step. From Wordnik.com. [The Turn of the Screw] Reference
"We have been cogitating, " said #2, -and very much disturbed by the thing you told us'the question that you asked. From Wordnik.com. [A Heritage of Stars]
Just as he was cogitating within himself, he, of a sudden, perceived Pi Hen come and ask him to go and wash his face. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
For a few moments the animal stood cogitating, then trotted rapidly back to the spot where he had left his companions. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886] Reference
He amused himself while cogitating over it, tasting like an epicure the flavour of the good wine to be drunk presently. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
As she sat cogitating thus, a group of young men formed themselves a little in front of her: looking up, she saw Vivian. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
During this process of cogitating, he had been looking at a rock formation which was unusually symmetrical in its contours. From Wordnik.com. [Starless Realm]
"Strange, strange," the Ancient Mariner would next mutter, half to his cogitating soul, half aloud to the treasure-seekers. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XII] Reference
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