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recogitating

recogitating is the present participle and gerund of recogitate.

Meaning of recogitate

Verb

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

  1. (formal) To think or ponder.
  2. To cogitate again; reconsider.
    • 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...1835, The Question of the Irish Church, page 5

Questions about recogitating

What is recogitating the present participle and gerund of?
Recogitating is the present participle and gerund of recogitate.

Words near recogitating in the dictionary

  1. recoffins
  2. recog
  3. recogitate
  4. recogitated
  5. recogitates
  6. recogitating
  7. recogitation
  8. recogitations
  9. recognin
  10. recognins
  11. recognisability

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