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Causing perplexity; distracting. "Distractive thoughts." Bp. Hall.

Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

To have or feel a presage or foreboding. Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts. Shak.

Without distinct thought; unreflecting; thoughtless; heedless. "The dizzy multitude." Milton.

r other instrument conveying information in the case; any material substance on which the thoughts of men are represented by any species of conventional mark or symbol. Saint Luke . . . collected them from such documents and testimonies as he . . . judged to be authentic. Paley.

Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts. Sir P. Sidney.

rom one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. I thought it most prudent to deter the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. A. Hamilton.

The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during sleep; a sleeping vision. Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. Dryden. I had a dream which was not all a dream. Byron.

To fall dead, or to fall in death. Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us. Digby.

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

Continuing; not completed; implying duration. Its durative tense, which expresses the thought of it as going on. J. Byrne.

lication of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.

all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.

Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.

One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self. I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness. Carlyle.

Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving. Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable. G. Eliot.

g relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought.

s raised by success, or by hope; flushed or exalted with confidence; elated; exultant. O, thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate. Pope. Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.…

Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.

d, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.