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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To take careful thought or think carefully about; ponder. See Synonyms at think.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To think earnestly or studiously; reflect; ponder; meditate: as, to cogitate upon means of escape.
  2. To revolve in the mind; think about attentively; meditate on; hence, devise or plan: as, he is cogitating mischief.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
  2. v. transitive To consider, to devise.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To engage in continuous thought; to think.
  2. v. To think over; to plan.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
  2. v. consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind

Etymologies

  1. From cōgitāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin cōgitō ("I think"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin cōgitāre, cōgitāt- : co-, intensive pref.; see co- + agitāre, to consider; see agitate. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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