Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, v. t.
1. To chew over again.
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2. Fig.: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
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Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin. --Dryden.
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What I know
Is ruminated, plotted, and set down. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, Ruminated \Ru"mi*na`ted\, a. (Bot.)
Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled
with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North
American papaw.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ruminate \Ru"mi*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ruminated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Ruminating.] [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari,
ruminare, fr. rumen, -inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch,
erugere to belch out, Gr. ?, AS. roccettan.]
1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly
chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate."
--Wordsworth.
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2. Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to
ponder; to reflect. --Cowper.
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Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that
ruminates on the felicity of heaven? --I. Taylor.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ruminate
v 1: chew the cuds; "cows ruminate"
2: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of
the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the
question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist
must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew
over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate,
muse, reflect, mull, mull over, speculate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "ruminate":
be abstracted, bite, brood, brood over, champ, chaw, chew,
chew over, chew the cud, chew up, chomp, chump, con over, consider,
contemplate, crunch, debate, deliberate, deliberate over,
deliberate upon, digest, excogitate, gnash, gnaw, grind, gum,
introspect, masticate, meditate, meditate upon, mouth, mull over,
mumble, munch, muse, muse on, muse over, nibble, perpend,
play around with, play with, ponder, ponder over, reflect,
reflect over, revolve, roll, ruminate over, run over, scrunch,
speculate, study, think over, toy with, turn over, weigh
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, speculate, think over
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