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ing the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.

Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief. Berkeley. -- a.

Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as, unthinking youth.

e rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.

ss power of attraction" is an ampliative judgment; because we can think of bodies without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attribute. Abp. W. Thomson.

ility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy. A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. I. Taylor.

Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. A creature . . . not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason. Milton.

or but that. And but my noble Moor is true of mind . . . it were enough to put him to ill thinking. Shak.

The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation. "Fixed in cogitation deep." Milton.

Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating. "Cogitative faculties." Wollaston.

Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts.

A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated. Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. Sir P. Sidney.

17. He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. Locke.

The act of thinking worthy; honor. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.

A thinking or planning beforehand; prescience; premeditation; forecast; provident care. A sphere that will demand from him forethought, courage, and wisdom. I. Taylor.

The manner in which a thing is conceived or constituted by an act of human thinking; the result of such an act; as, animality and rationality are formalities.

To examine; to test; to sound. [Obs.] Chaucer. Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe. Genevan Test. (Acts xxiv. ).

to another. Locke. The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than habitudes of thinking. Landor.