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Thought | Thought \Thought\, n. [OE. [thorn]oght, [thorn]ouht, AS. [thorn][=o]ht, ge[thorn][=o]ht, fr. [thorn]encean to think; akin to D. gedachte thought, MHG. d[=a]ht, ged[=a]ht, Icel. [thorn][=o]ttr, [thorn][=o]tti. See {Think}.] 1. The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation. [1913 Webster] Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. --Dr. T. Dwight. [1913 Webster] 2. Meditation; serious consideration. [1913 Webster] Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. --Roscommon. [1913 Webster] 3. That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention. [1913 Webster] Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Why do you keep alone, . . . Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? --Shak. [1913 Webster] Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] All their thoughts are against me for evil. --Ps. lvi. 5. [1913 Webster] 4. Solicitude; anxious care; concern. [1913 Webster] Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink. --Matt. vi. 25. [1913 Webster] 5. A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] If the hair were a thought browner. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Note: Thought, in philosophical usage now somewhat current, denotes the capacity for, or the exercise of, the very highest intellectual functions, especially those usually comprehended under judgment. [1913 Webster] This [faculty], to which I gave the name of the ``elaborative faculty,'' -- the faculty of relations or comparison, -- constitutes what is properly denominated thought. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster] Syn: Idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit; notion; supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation; contemplation; cogitation; deliberation. [1913 Webster] |
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