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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ruminate  \Ru"mi*nate\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Ruminated};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Ruminating}.]  [L.  ruminatus  p.  p.  of  ruminari 
  ruminare,  fr  rumen,  -inis,  throat,  akin  to  ructare  to  belch, 
  erugere  to  belch  out  Gr  ?,  AS  roccettan.] 
  1.  To  chew  the  cud;  to  chew  again  what  has  been  slightly 
  chewed  and  swallowed.  ``Cattle  free  to  ruminate.'' 
  --Wordsworth. 
 
  2.  Fig.:  To  think  again  and  again  to  muse;  to  meditate;  to 
  ponder;  to  reflect.  --Cowper. 
 
  Apart  from  the  hope  of  the  gospel,  who  is  there  that 
  ruminates  on  the  felicity  of  heaven?  --I.  Taylor. 




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