philosophating love

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  • verb Present participle of philosophate.

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Examples

  • May-poling — frisking here — capering there — no body cared a button for me or my remarks; so I sat me down upon a bench by the door, philosophating upon my condition: by a better fate than usually attends me, I had not waited half an hour, when the mistress came in to take the papilliotes from off her hair, before she went to the May-poles —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • May-poling — frisking here — capering there — no body cared a button for me or my remarks; so I sat me down upon a bench by the door, philosophating upon my condition: by a better fate than usually attends me, I had not waited half an hour, when the mistress came in to take the papilliotes from off her hair, before she went to the May-poles —

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

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