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verb

Ruminate v. t.

To chew over again.

Fig.: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on. "Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin." "What I know Is ruminated, plotted, and set down."

Ruminate v. i. (past & past part. ruminated; pres. part. ruminating)

To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate."

Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect. "Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that ruminates on the felicity of heaven?"

adjective

Ruminated, Ruminate adj. (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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Etymology of 'Ruminate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ruminate" Quotes from Famous Books

... bad taste to obtrude one's own little affairs, and leave him with vexatious intelligence to ruminate on his voyage. Nay, who knows but that he might have thought it his duty to wait to compose matters, and so a bright light might have been ...

— The Pillars of the House, V1 • Charlotte M. Yonge

... conversation—would it not be possible for an eavesdropper outside to hear a good deal, if not everything, of what was said? The idea was worth thinking over, anyway, and Triffitt retired indoors to ruminate over it ...

— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher

... distasteful. But at first these things are not openly unpleasant. There are no scenes. One or the other gives in on the instant, without self-betrayal, and one or the other retires to have a secret cry or to ruminate about it over a cigar—the first faint hints, I may slyly suggest, of the return of rationality. They ...

— The Kempton-Wace Letters • Jack London

... against other animals that these great mammals have to defend themselves; they are much afraid of heat, and they are accustomed, especially in the south of Persia, to ruminate while lying in the water during the hot hours of the day. They only allow the end of the snout, or at most the head, to appear. It is a curious spectacle when fording a river to see emerge from the reeds the great heads and calm eyes of the ...

— The Industries of Animals • Frederic Houssay

... when luxuriously Spring's honeyed cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

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