Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. Dr. T. Dwight.

Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. Roscommon.

Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought. Pope.

Why do you keep alone, . . .
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on? Shak.

Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject. Dryden.

All their thoughts are against me for evil. Ps. lvi. 5.

Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end. Bacon.

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink. Matt. vi. 25.

If the hair were a thought browner. Shak.

* Thought, in philosophical usage now somewhat current, denotes the capacity for, or the exercise of, the very highest intellectual functions, especially those usually comprehended under judgment.

This [faculty], to which I gave the name of the "elaborative faculty," -- the faculty of relations or comparison, -- constitutes what is properly denominated thought. Sir W. Hamilton.

Syn. -- Idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit; notion; supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation; contemplation; cogitation; deliberation.