Date: 1706 [first published 1658]
"To Ruminate, to chew the Cud: In a figurative Sense, to ponder seriously, to weigh in Mind, to consider, muse, or think upon."
preview | full record— Phillips, Edward (1630-1696)
Date: 1719
"It would take up a larger Volume than this whole Work is intended to be, to set down all the Contrivances I hatch'd, or rather brooded upon in my Thought."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)