a. [ad. L. cōgitābundus thinking, f. cōgitāre to think.] Musing, meditating, thoughtful, deep in thought.
1649. Bulwer, Pathomyot., II. v. 170. Such are of a … Cogitabund aspect.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, I. ii. 5. If he be thoughtive or cogitabund.
1692. Southerne, Wives Excuse, III. i. Thou art cogitabund; thy head is running upon thy poetry.
1821. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 68 (1822), II. 123. Is not the humour of them elaborate, cogitabund, fanciful?
Hence Cogitabundation, Cogitabundity, deep meditation, thoughtfulness; Cogitabundly adv. meditatively: Cogitabundous a. = COGITABUND.
1627. Sir S. D’Ewes, Jrnl. Parl. (1783), 61. My dailie … greife for the miseries of true religion in Germanie … made my soul soe sadd and cogitabundous.
1659. H. More, Immort. Soul (1662), 54. Let them [the stars] seem to wink and twinkle as cogitabundly as they will.
1729. Brice’s Weekly (Exeter) Jrnl., 7 Feb., 4. The Result of which mighty Cogitabundation may hereafter furnish out Matter enough.
1744. Miss Carter, Lett. (1808), 53. With the addition of much cogitabundity over the riddles in the Ladies’ Almanack.
