ruminate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1533; borrowed from Latin rūminātus, perfect active participle of rūminor (“to chew the cud, turn over in the mind”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from rūmen (“the throat, gullet”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), itself of uncertain origin.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: ruminates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ruminating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ruminated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ruminated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: ruminate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: ruminate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: ruminated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: ruminate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: ruminatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: ruminated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: ruminatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: ruminates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ruminateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: ruminated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: ruminate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: ruminated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: ruminate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: ruminated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: ruminate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: ruminating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ruminated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.
There is surely some point beyond which the acquisition of other men’s thoughts must not be carried. This we say for the sake of those helluones librorum, who read forever and without stint; browsing as diligently as oxen in the green herbage of rich meads, but, unlike these, never lying down to ruminate. Life is too short, Art is too long, for a human mind to make perpetual accretion of book-learning, without halt. Sufflaminandum est.
gloss: To meditate or reflect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.
Yet do thou cherish thy Partner, whilst her innocent Eyes are gazing on the Green Garment, that covereth the Surface of her Illapidable Virginity, ruminating upon the Departure of her nearest and dearest Friend [...] In that Day, thee wilt see with the Eye of Flesh; but if thee pursues it farther, to know whether she be Lapidable, or not, thee art certainly a Tyrant: For the Hammer of thy Loins, will at length beat down the Fortress of her Porto Bello; and the Pillars of her Tabernace will be spread abroad, until thee hast plundered the City, and taken the Precious Stones away.
In the present case, therefore, it now comes closer and closer, in thought, to the first finite; but before taking hold of it, and determining to explore it, the mind proposes, and ruminates, certain middle questions, touching the actual existence of a nexus, and the possibility there is, of discovering the nature, and quality of the nexus, which subsists between the cause, and the causate, or between the infinite, and the first finite.
All its sweetness, its wild purity, its slow, sorrowful strength, and its sudden overtripping, overmastering joy , drifted out upon the sunshine of the meadow, the varied phrases coming turn and turn about with long intervening silences, as though the singer ruminated on all the beauty before her, and unconsciously sang her thoughts aloud.
Meanwhile, the MoT had itself also been ruminating on options for the northern half of the route.
gloss: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What I know / Is ruminated, plotted, and set down.
Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.
"Good-by, my dear Belinda; I leave you to ruminate sweet and bitter thoughts; to think of the last speech and confession of Lady Delacour, or, what will interest you much more, the first speech and confession of—Clarence Harvey."
gloss: Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a ruminate endosperm
Synonyms: Or Thesaurus:think
Related words: rumen
ruminant
rumination
ruminatory
Derived words: ruminative
ruminator
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: խորհրդածել
roman: xorhrdacel
lang: Bulgarian
word: размишлявам
roman: razmišljavam
lang: Czech
word: přemítat
lang: Czech
word: hloubat
lang: Czech
word: rozebírat
lang: Dutch
word: overdenken
lang: Finnish
word: märehtiä
lang: French
word: ruminer
lang: German
word: grübeln
lang: Greek
word: σκέφτομαι
roman: skéftomai
lang: Hungarian
word: rágódik
lang: Hungarian
word: mereng
lang: Hungarian
word: elmélkedik
lang: Māori
word: whakaraupeka
lang: Norwegian
word: tygge på
lang: Polish
word: zastanawiać się
lang: Polish
word: zastanowić się
lang: Polish
word: myśleć
lang: Polish
word: pomyśleć
lang: Portuguese
word: ruminar
lang: Portuguese
word: remoer
lang: Romanian
word: rumega (o idee)
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cnuasaich
lang: Spanish
word: rumiar
lang: Spanish
word: rebinar
lang: Spanish
word: cavilar
lang: Ukrainian
word: роздумувати
roman: rozdumuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: розмірковувати
roman: rozmirkovuvaty