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1,116 words match “THOUGH”

THOUGH conj. 2 definitions

Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. Job xiii. 15. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem. Milton.

THOUGHT n. 6 definitions

of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation. Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. Dr. T. Dwight.

THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE n.

THOUGHTFUL a. 3 definitions

Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope.

THOUGHTLESS adv. 3 definitions

Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.

AFORETHOUGHT a. 2 definitions

Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.

AFTERTHOUGHT n.

Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.

Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though. Although all shall be offended, yet will no I. Mark xiv. 29.

imp. & p. p. of Bethink.

FORETHOUGHT a. 2 definitions

Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.

FORETHOUGHTFUL a.

Having forethought. [R.]

HIGHER THOUGHT n.

See New thought, below.

LOW-THOUGHTED a.

Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.

MERRYTHOUGHT n.

The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.

Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error. [Obs.] Spenser.

hristian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. AS a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent men…

sible. 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.

To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity. Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. Burke.

esting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.