THINK, v.i. pret. and pp. thought, pron. thaut. [L. duco.]

1. To have the mind occupied on some subject; to have ideas, or to revolve ideas in the mind. For that I am / I know, because I think. Dryden. These are not matters to be slightly thought on. Tillotson.
2. To judge; to conclude; to hold as a settled opinion. I think it will rain to-morrow. I think it not best to proceed on our journey. Let them marry to whom they think best. Numb. xxxvi.
3. To intend. Thou thought'st to help me. Shak. I thought to promote thee to great honor. Numb. xxiv.
4. To imagine; to suppose; to fancy. Edmund, I think, is gone / In pity of his misery, to dispatch / His 'nighted life. Shak. Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. x.
5. To muse; to meditate. While Peter thought on the vision. Acts x. Think much, speak little. Dryden.
6. To reflect; to recollect or call to mind. And when Peter thought thereon, he wept. Mark xiv.
7. To consider; to deliberate. Think how this thing could happen. He thought within himself, saying, What shall I do? Luke xii.
8. To presume. Think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father. Matth. iii.
9. To believe; to esteem. To think on or upon, to muse on; to meditate on. If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. Phil. iv. #2. To light on by meditation. He has just thought on an expedient that will answer the purpose. #3. To remember with favor. Think upon me, my God, for good. Neh. v. To think of, to have ideas come into the mind. He thought of what you told him. I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it. To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem.

1. To conceive; to imagine. Charity thinketh no evil. 1 Cor. xiii.
2. To believe; to consider; to esteem. Nor think superfluous others' aid. Milton.
3. To seem or appear, as in the phrases, me thinketh or methinks, and methought. These are genuine Saxon phrases, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions, me is actually in the dative case; almost the only instance remaining in the language. Sax. “genoh thuht,” satis visum est, it appeared enough or sufficient; “me thincth,” mihi videtur, it seems to me; I perceive. To think much, to grudge. He thought not much to clothe his enemies. Milton. To think much of, to hold in high esteem. To think scorn, to disdain. Esth. iii.

1. To seem or appear; - - used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
   
   

   * These are genuine Anglo-Saxon expressions, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions me is in the dative case.

2. To conceive; to imagine.
   
   

   Charity . . . thinketh no evil. 1 Cor. xiii. 4,5.

3. Act of thinking; a thought.
   
   
   [Obs. or Colloq.]
4. To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
   
   

   For that I am
   I know, because I think. Dryden.

5. To plan or design; to plot; to compass.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   So little womanhood
   And natural goodness, as to think the death
   Of her own son. Beau. *** Fl.

6. To call anything to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.
   
   

   Well thought upon; I have it here. Shak.

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7. To believe] to consider; to esteem.
   
   

   Nor think superfluous other's aid. Milton.

   To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] "[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies." Milton. -- To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]