PHILOSOPHISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does philosophise mean? 

• PHILOSOPHISE (verb)
  The verb PHILOSOPHISE has 1 sense:

1. reason philosophically

  Familiarity information: PHILOSOPHISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHILOSOPHISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they philosophise    ... he / she / it philosophises   
Past simple: philosophised   
Past participle: philosophised   
-ing form: philosophising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reason philosophically

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

philosophise; philosophize

Hypernyms (to "philosophise" is one way to...):

cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

philosophiser (someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view)

philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)

 Context examples 

But not being at that time in a disposition to philosophise upon this phenomenon, I rather chose to observe what course the island would take, because it seemed for awhile to stand still.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)