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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Thought \Thought\, imp. & p. p. of {Think}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. --Dr. T. Dwight. 2. Meditation; serious consideration. Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. --Roscommon. 3. That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention. Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought. --Pope. Why do you keep alone, . . . Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? --Shak. Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject. --Dryden. All their thoughts are against me for evil. --Ps. lvi. 5. 4. Solicitude; anxious care concern. Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end --Bacon. Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink. --Matt. vi 25. 5. A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as a thought longer; a thought better. [Colloq.] If the hair were a thought browner. --Shak. 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. 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. Syn: Idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit; notion; supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation; contemplation; cogitation; deliberation. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Think \Think\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thought}; p. pr & vb n. {Thinking}.] [OE. thinken, properly, to seem, from AS [thorn]yncean (cf. {Methinks}), but confounded with OE thenken to think, fr AS [thorn]encean (imp. [thorn][=o]hte); akin to D. denken dunken, OS thenkian thunkian G. denken d["u]nken, Icel. [thorn]ekkja to perceive, to know [thorn]ykkja to seem, Goth. [thorn]agkjan, [thorn]aggkjan, to think, [thorn]ygkjan to think, to seem, OL tongere to know Cf {Thank}, {Thought}.] 1. To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: thought n 1: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind" [syn: {idea}] 2: the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought" [syn: {thinking}, {cerebration}, {intellection}, {mentation}] 3: the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual; "19th century thought" or "Darwinian thought" 4: a personal belief that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" [syn: {opinion}, {sentiment}, {persuasion}, {view}]
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