cogitabund

comparative more cogitabund · superlative most cogitabund

1. archaicliteraryDeep in thought; meditative, thoughtful.

   Phædra. [...] Why Soſia! What, in a brown Study? / Soſia. A little cogitabund, or ſo; concerning this diſmal Revolution in our Family!

   1690, [John] Dryden, Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosia’s. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […]; and M. Tonson […], published 1691, →OCLC, Act III, pages 29–30

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   To turn the apple of the eye towards the Nose, is their peculiar action who are Sowre and Severe; for, such are of a Contuitive, Grave, and Cogitabund aspect, such as is seen in those who with some Tragicall and Goblin-like look would affright and scare others.

   1649, John Bulwer, “Dissect. XVII”, in Pathomyotamia or A Dissection of the Significative Muscles of the Affections of the Minde. […], London: […] W. W. for Humphrey Moseley, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170

   [B]eing us'd to this ſedentary Diverſion, [...] he grew mighty cogitabund, from whence a Frenzy ſeiz'd on Him, and He turn'd Enthuſiaſt like one of our French Prophets, and went about Prognoſticating the Downfall of the King and Popery, which were Terms ſynonimous at that time of Day.

   1711, [William Wagstaffe], The Ballad of The King shall Enjoy His Own again: With a Learned Comment thereupon, […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 5

   Canſt thou imagine, that any other writer of my merits, elaborate, cogitabund, fanciful in the garniſhment of a quaint conceit, and reeking with my diſappointments, would be pacified with ſo trivial a conceſſion?

   1796, [James White; Charles Lamb], “Preface”, in Original Letters, &c. of Sir John Falstaff and His Friends; […], London: […] Messrs. G. G. and J. Robinsons, […]; J[ohn] Debrett, […]; and Murray and Highley, […], →OCLC, page xxii

   It is related in the same archives of cosmogony that the King of the Goats is a White Goat, who carries his head in a melancholy and cogitabund position, regarding the ground,— [...]

   1847, Robert Southey, “Chapter CC. A Chapter of Kings.”, in John Wood Warter, editor, The Doctor, &c., volume VI, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, pages 361–362

   [W]e have so many new poets coming forward, it may be as well to give a general warning against that tendency to an accumulation and ostentation of thoughts, which is meant to be a refutation in full of the pretensions of all poetry less cogitabund, whatever may be the requirements of its class.

   1850, Leigh Hunt, “An Answer to the Question, ‘What is Poetry?’”, in Imagination and Fancy; or Selections from the English Poets, […], new edition, New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 34

   Synonyms: cogitabundous, musing, pensive, attentive, calculant, contemplative, deliberative, intelligent