a. rare. [ad. L. cōgitānt-em, pr. pple. of cōgitāre to think.] Thinking, that thinks.
1681. Glanvill, Sadducismus, I. (1726), 69. And also perceives himself to be some particular cogitant Being.
Hence Cogitantly adv., in a thinking manner.
1660. S. Fisher, Rusticks Alarm, Wks. (1679), 397. Shall we think, because J. O. so thinks, and very cogitantly (but little cogently to us) conjectures that [etc.].
