¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ruminates
1. ruminate [v] - See also: ruminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruminates
Literary usage of Ruminates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1905)
"... in her commendation, or else he ruminates how she rejected his service, denied
him a kiss, disgraced him, &a, and that as effectually torments him. ..."
2. An Introduction to Logic by William Henry Stanley Monck (1880)
"Thus, for example, if any one asserts that Every horned animal ruminates (or
chews the cud), we make horned-animal one term, and instead of the word ..."
3. An Introduction to Logic by William Henry Stanley Monck (1880)
"Thus, for example, if any one asserts that Every horned animal ruminates (or
chews the cud), we make horned-animal one term, and instead of the word ..."
4. Connecticut Common School Journal by Henry Barnard, Connecticut, Board of Commissioners of Common Schools (1862)
"After explaining the process to him as well as I can, and then informing him that
such a process is called ruminating, and an animal that ruminates is ..."
Other Resources:
