recogitate

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/ɹɪˈkɑd͡ʒəˌteɪt/

verb

To think or ponder.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbrecogitate (third-person singular simple present recogitates, present participle recogitating, simple past and past participle recogitated)

present singular third person recogitates · participle present recogitating · participle past recogitated · past recogitated

  1. formalTo think or ponder.
  2. To cogitate again; reconsider.
    1 more example

    It is hardly possible, indeed, that your Lordship should not have given the subject a deep and attentive consideration; but it is surely not too much, in an affair of such immense importance, to ask of you to recogitate the matter. You have, no doubt, considered it as a religious man; and as a religious man I conjure you to consider it again: […]

    1835, The Question of the Irish Church, page 5

Origin

  1. Latinrecōgitō
  2. Englishrecogitate

From Latin recōgitō.

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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recogitate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recogitate.

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