Showing posts with label rumination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rumination. Show all posts

06 December 2009

Rumination

Thinking of this and that, swallowing thoughts and bringing them back up, trying desperately to enhance the presentation, the word rumination occurred to me as a description of what I had written.

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Rumination
Rumination Ru`mi*na"tion, n. [L. ruminatio: cf. F.
rumination.]
1. The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the
habit of chewing the cud.
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Rumination is given to animals to enable them at
once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward
to chew it. --Arbuthnot.
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2. The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder;
deliberate meditation or reflection.
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Retiring full of rumination sad. --Thomson.
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3. (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach
after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a
morbid phenomenon in man.
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-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

rumination
n 1: a calm lengthy intent consideration [syn: contemplation, reflection,
reflexion, musing, thoughtfulness]
2: (of ruminants) chewing (the cud); "ruminants have remarkable
powers of rumination"
3: regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants
after feeding

-- From WordNet (r) 2.0