Thought

Definition of Thought

imp. & p.	1.	imp. & p. p. of Think.
n.	1.	The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation. Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. - Dr. T. Dwight.
	2.	Meditation; serious consideration. Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. - Roscommon.
	3.	That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention. Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought. - Pope. Why do you keep alone, . . . Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? - Shak. Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject. - Dryden. All their thoughts are against me for evil. - Ps. lvi. 5.
	4.	Solicitude; anxious care; concern. Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end. - Bacon. Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink. - Matt. vi. 25.
	5.	A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better. If the hair were a thought browner. - Shak. This [faculty], to which I gave the name of the "elaborative faculty," - the faculty of relations or comparison, - constitutes what is properly denominated thought. - Sir W. Hamilton.

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