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"Animals"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
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Literary Period:
"Restoration"
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"Seventeenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"To chew the cud upon a thing ... To consider of a thing, to revolve it in one's mind: to ruminate, which is the name of this action, is used in the same sense both in Latin and English."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)