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grand; noble. Both meet to hear and answer such high things. Shak. Plain living and high thinking are no more. Wordsworth.

Thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands of God; lowly; waek; modest. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Jas. iv. 6. She should be humble who would please. Prior. With…

Want of thought, or of the power of thinking; thoughtlessness; unreasonableness. 'T is folly and incogitancy to argue anything, one way or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate. Glanvill.

Not cogitative; not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitative being. Locke.

The quality of being incogitative; want of thought or of the power of thinking. Wollaston.

the power to perceive objects in their relations; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.

ions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.

g, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.

Skilled in logic; versed in the art of thinking and reasoning; as, he is a logical thinker. Addison.

In a lowly place or manner; humbly. [Obs. or R.] Thinking lowlily of himself and highly of those better than himself. J. C. Shairp.

n, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.

Sense; power of thinking. [R.] -- Mean"ing*less, a. -- Mean"ing*ly, adv.

The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief. A fool uttereth all his mind. Prov. xxix. 11. Being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling her mind. Shak.…

Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.

The mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile." South.

e act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.

The act of thinking; a supposition. [Obs.]

To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume. They that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen. Milton.

17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. Locke.

uman being; a man, woman, or child. Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection. Locke.