3. Specifically: — (a) To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
(b) To reflect upon any subject; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to consider; to deliberate.
He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
(c) To form an opinion by reasoning; to judge; to conclude; to believe; as, I think it will rain to-morrow.
(d) To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean.
I thought to promote thee unto great honor.
Think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father.
To think, in a philosophical use as yet somewhat limited, designates the higher intellectual acts, the acts preëminently rational; to judge; to compare; to reason. Thinking is employed by Hamilton as "comprehending all our collective energies." It is defined by Mansel as "the act of knowing or judging by means of concepts,"by Lotze as "the reaction of the mind on the material supplied by external influences." See Thought.
To think better of. See under Better. — To think much of, or To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem highly.
Syn. — To expect; guess; cogitate; reflect; ponder; contemplate; meditate; muse; imagine; suppose; believe. See Expect, Guess.
2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. [Obs.]
So little womanhood And natural goodness, as to think the death Of her own son.
To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] "[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies." Milton. — To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]
Think"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. Sir W. Hamilton.
Think"er (?), n. One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
Think"ing, a. Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. — Think"ing*ly, adv.
Think"ing, n. The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.
I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.
Thin"ly (?), a. In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.