COGITABUNDOUSADJ.
deep in thought, thoughtful, meditating, musing ...1627 ETYMOLOGY from Latin cōgitābundus thinking, from cōgitāre to think FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1627 - see Example below EXAMPLE "...But my greife for the miseries and desolacions of true religion in Germanie, France, and Denmarke, made my soul soe sadd and cogitabundous, as it especiallie interrupted my very studies this moneth." From: The Journals of all the Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth By: Sir Simonds d'Ewes, a1650 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • Dictionary of Early English, Joseph Shipley, 1955
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