Definition of Ruminated

1. Verb. (past of ruminate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ruminated

1. ruminate [v] - See also: ruminate

Medical Definition of Ruminated

1. Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruminated

rume
rumen
rumenitis
rumenotomy
rumens
rumes
rumican
rumicin
rumina
ruminal
ruminant
ruminantia
ruminantly
ruminants
ruminate
ruminated (current term)
ruminates
ruminating
ruminatingly
rumination
rumination disorder
ruminations
ruminative
ruminatively
ruminator
ruminators
ruminococcin
ruminoreticulum
rumkin
rumkins

Literary usage of Ruminated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Magnetic Lady: Or, Humors Reconciled by Ben Jonson (1914)
"... I hope; to morrow, I am fure there will bee none, when they have ruminated this. Pro. Let us mind what you come for, the Play, which »° will draw on to ..."

2. Doctor Claudius: A True Story by Francis Marion Crawford (1883)
"And Mr. Barker ruminated, rolling his cigar in his mouth. "Besides," he added, after a long pause, "you have made a conquest." "Nonsense. ..."

3. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver, David Prain, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1877)
"Ovules collateral; placentas inconspicuous. Albumen ruminated 27. ... Albumen ruminated. Bracteoles cup-shaped . . 43. ..."

4. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"When the patient drank water, this would never come up again ; milk, however, would be ejected in a curdled condition after ten minutes, and was ruminated. ..."

5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1833)
"Without this arrangement in fact, the ruminated substances contained in the fourth stomach would be constantly mixed together, confounded and brought back ..."

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