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Think   /θɪŋk/   Listen
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Think  v. t.  (past & past part. thought; pres. part. thinking)  
1.
To seem or appear; used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought. Note: These are genuine Anglo-Saxon expressions, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions me is in the dative case.
2.
To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. "For that I am I know, because I think."
3.
Specifically:
(a)
To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. "Well thought upon; I have it here."
(b)
To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate. "And when he thought thereon, he wept." "He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?"
(c)
To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow. "Let them marry to whom they think best."
(d)
To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. "I thought to promote thee unto great honor." "Thou thought'st to help me."
(e)
To presume; to venture. "Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father." Note: To think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts preeminently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. Thinking is employed by Hamilton as "comprehending all our collective energies." It is defined by Mansel as "the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts,"by Lotze as "the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences." See Thought.
To think better of. See under Better.
To think much of, or To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly.
Synonyms: To expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe. See Expect, Guess.


Think  v. t.  (past & past part. thought; pres. part. thinking)  
1.
To conceive; to imagine. "Charity... thinketh no evil."
2.
To plan or design; to plot; to compass. (Obs.) "So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son."
3.
To believe; to consider; to esteem. "Nor think superfluous other's aid."
To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. (Obs.) "(He) thought not much to clothe his enemies."
To think scorn.
(a)
To disdain. (Obs.) "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone."
(b)
To feel indignation. (Obs.)


noun
Think  n.  Act of thinking; a thought. "If you think that I'm finished, you've got another think coming!" (Obs. or Colloq.)





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"Think" Quotes from Famous Books



... if you like. Oh, don't die, Dodd, my poor old fellow. How shall I ever face his wife—I remember her, the loveliest girl you ever saw—with such a tale as this? She will think it a cruel thing I should come out of it without a scratch, and a ten times better man to be dead: and so it is; it is cruel, it is unjust, it is monstrous; him to be lying there, and we muffs to be sitting croaking over him and watching ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... McPherson, with my English lieutenant, sprang off before it was too late. It may be that it was this slowing-down which first attracted the attention of the travellers, but the train was running at full speed again before their heads appeared at the open window. It makes me smile to think how bewildered they must have been. Picture to yourself your own feelings if, on looking out of your luxurious carriage, you suddenly perceived that the lines upon which you ran were rusted and corroded, ...
— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle
... of the heath and Harry checked her, and stood looking away over the wide prospect of mist-veiled meadow and dim blue woods. She was beginning her mocking chatter again when he broke in with, "Ods life, ha' done!" and turned to look deep into her eyes. "There's mystery in this, and I think you see nothing ...
— The Highwayman • H.C. Bailey
... with Sir James Lindsay, came upon him. "How fare you, cousin?" asked Sir John. "But poorly, I thank God," answered Douglas; "for few of my ancestors died in bed or chamber. I count myself dead, for my heart beats slow. Think now to avenge me. Raise my banner and shout 'Douglas!' and let neither my friends nor my foes know of my state, lest the one rejoice and the other be discomforted." His dying commands were obeyed; and while his battle-cry was raised ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry
... think I'm going to sell a house that I got as cheap as this one because we smell cabbage in a vacant lot, you're mistaken," replied ...
— The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman


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