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Philosophise

verb
1.
Reason philosophically.  Synonym: philosophize.



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"Philosophise" Quotes from Famous Books



... interposed the Captain, "before the Freule and the Jonker begin to philosophise; should the General come in I cannot say it. You know the day after to-morrow is the General's seventy-sixth birthday. I had intended the celebration to be a brilliant affair; but when I hear of wrong tracks, changes, and such farrago, ...
— Major Frank • A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint

... knows! The dread irrationality of the whole affair, as it seems to children, is a thing we are all too ready to forget. "O, why," I remember passionately wondering, "why can we not all be happy and devote ourselves to play?" And when children do philosophise, I believe it is usually to very ...
— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson

... for instance, I had married Roger; things which would never, I can see, be likely to come into the horizon of the happily (and prosperously) married, have come to me and I have been obliged, in my poor way, to philosophise over them. ...
— Margarita's Soul - The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty • Ingraham Lovell

... exercise of reason in a pure and undefiled heart; and he is convinced of the high and special spiritual powers which under such conditions are granted to it. 'I should commend to them that will successfully philosophise the belief and endeavour after a certain principle more noble and inward than reason itself, and without which reason will falter, or at least reach but to mean and frivolous things. I have a sense ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton



Words linked to "Philosophise" :   cerebrate, cogitate, philosophiser, philosophy, philosophize, think



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