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Definition of Cogitative
1. Adjective. Of or relating to having capacities for cogitation. "The cogitative faculty"
2. Adjective. Given to cogitation. "He looked at me with cogitative eyes"
Definition of Cogitative
1. a. Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating.
Definition of Cogitative
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, inclined to or capable of cogitation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cogitative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cogitative
Literary usage of Cogitative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1894)
"all to be matter ', and so deny a God, that is, an eternal BOOK Iv. cogitative
Being : whereby they are so far from establishing, ~**~ that they destroy ..."
2. Nasology: Or, Hints Towards a Classification of Noses by George Jabet (1848)
"IT is a great and prevalent mistake to imagine that a cogitative mind (and Nose)
is to be acquired by reading alone. It is almost certain that ..."
3. A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of by Samuel Clarke, Joseph Butler (1823)
"It is possible to infinite power to create any power of immaterial cogitative
substance, indued with a power ' ted, but only formed or framed, ..."
4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"And that a cogitative being, as such, hath a natural imperium over matter, and
power of moving it, without any engines or machines, is unquestionably ..."
5. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... yet a perfect cogitative and thinking being might be the beginning of all,
and the first cause of motion ; the Atheists will endeavor to evince the ..."
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