ruminate
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ruminate englanniksi
To chew cud. (Said of ruminants.) Involves regurgitating partially digested food from the rumen.
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(quote-book)|year=1861|page=181|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=_8I4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA181|oclc=6928761|passage=There is surely some point beyond which the acquisition of other men’s thoughts must not be carried. This we say for the sake of those ''helluones librorum'', who read forever and without stint; browsing as diligently as oxen in the green herbage of rich meads, but, unlike these, never lying down to ruminate. Life is too short, Art is too long, for a human mind to make perpetual accretion of book-learning, without halt. ''Sufflaminandum est''.
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To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1)
{{RQ:Dryden Virgil|Cinyras and Myrrha
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Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.
''a ruminate endosperm''
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