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. [Colloq.]
If the hair were a thought browner. --Shak.
Note: Thought, in philosophical usage now somewhat current,
denotes the capacity for, or the exercise of, the very
highest intellectual functions, especially those
usually comprehended under judgment.
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.
Syn: Idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit; notion;
supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation;
contemplation; cogitation; deliberation.