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Cogitation (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain

Not the action of thinking, but the thought itself. Cf. Hobbes 162S) ' Being terrified with the cogitation, that not any of those which had been formerly sent had ever returned.' J. HASTINGS.

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