Definitions for ruminate
ˈru məˌneɪtru·mi·nate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. ruminateverb

   chew the cuds

   "cows ruminate"

2. chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculateverb

   reflect deeply on a subject

   "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. ruminateverb

   To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.

   A camel will ruminate just as a cow will.

2. ruminateverb

   To meditate or reflect.

   I didn't answer right away because I needed to ruminate first.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To Ruminateverb

   Etymology: rumino, Lat.

   1. To chew over again.2. To muse on; to meditate over and over again.

   ’Tis a studied, not a present thought,
   By duty ruminated. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra.

   Knock at the study, where he keeps,
   To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge. William Shakespeare.

   The condemned English
   Sit patiently, and inly ruminate
   The morning’s danger. William Shakespeare.

   Mad with desire she ruminates her sin,
   And wishes all her wishes o’er again;
   Now she despairs, and now resolves to try;
   Wou’d not, and wou’d again, she knows not why. Dry.

2. To RUMINATEverb

   Etymology: ruminer, Fr. rumino, Lat.

   1. To chew the cud.

   Others fill’d with pasture gazing sat,
   Or bedward ruminating. John Milton, Par. Lost, b. iv.

   The necessity of spittle to dissolve the aliment, appears from the contrivance of nature in making the salivary ducts of animals, which ruminate or chew the cud, extremely open. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

   On grassy banks herds ruminating lie. James Thomson.

   2. To muse; to think again and again.

   Alone sometimes she walk’d in secret where,
   To ruminate upon her discontent. Edward Fairfax, b. iv.

   Of ancient prudence here he ruminates,
   Of rising kingdoms, and of falling states. Edmund Waller.

   I am at a solitude, an house between Hampstead and London, wherein Sir Charles Sedley died: this circumstance sets me a thinking and ruminating upon the employments in which men of wit exercise themselves. Richard Steele, to Pope.

   He practises a slow meditation, and ruminates on the subject; and perhaps in two nights and days rouses those several ideas which are necessary. Isaac Watts, Improv. of the Mind.

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1. ruminate

   To ruminate means to think deeply or for a long period of time about something. It may also refer to the process of slowly and thoroughly chewing cud, which is typical behavior for certain animals like cows and goats. The term is often used metaphorically to describe deep, careful thought.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Ruminateverb

   to chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed

2. Ruminateverb

   to think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect

3. Ruminateverb

   to chew over again

4. Ruminateverb

   to meditate or ponder over; to muse on

5. Ruminateadjective

   alt. of Ruminated

6. Etymology: [L. ruminatus, p. p. of ruminari, ruminare, fr. rumen, -inis, throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Gr. , AS. roccettan.]

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1. Ruminate

   To ruminate is a sign of being a human -to those dont ruminate dont belong among humans

   My late grandmother used to say a human birth is worth aspiring for because only humans can ruminate-others can only chew cud-my late grandmother was right-it is evident in my life-when I took some wrong decision and added to parents (late)-misery

   
   

   Submitted by Lighthouse21 on March 15, 2018  

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ruminate in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ruminate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of ruminate in a Sentence

1. William Shakespeare:

   Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst of words.

2. Burton:

   Every man knows his own but not others? defects and miseries; and ?tis the nature of all men still to reflect upon themselves their own misfortunes, not to examine or consider other men?s, not to confer themselves with others; to recount their own miseries but not their good gifts, fortunes, benefits which they have, to ruminate on their adversity, but not once to think on their prosperity, not what they have but what they want.

3. Richard Goldstein:

   It is true that people can get depressed after loss, but there are very significant differences in the behaviors that we're talking about when someone's depressed after loss than what is seen in prolonged grief, one aspect of depression is withdrawing from attachment figures, whereas someone with pathological grief can ruminate and seeks more proximity with those that have died.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=ruminate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ruminate
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=ruminate
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ruminate
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ruminate