Cogitate vs Believe - What's the difference?
cogitate | believe | Related terms |
To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
* Francis Bacon
* 1953 ,
To consider, to devise.
(label) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing)
* 1611 , (King James Version of the Bible), 1:1 :
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, title= (label) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
(label) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.
Cogitate is a related term of believe.
As verbs the difference between cogitate and believe
is that cogitate is to meditate, to ponder, to think deeply while believe is (label) to accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (ie, as opposed to knowing).cogitate
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Verb
(cogitat)- He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.
- Think, ladies! Cogitate ! Sharpen up the edges of your wit.
Synonyms
* See alsobelieve
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Alternative forms
* beleeve (obsolete)Verb
(believ)- (Here, the speaker merely accepts the accuracy of the conditional.)
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us
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