(v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body.
(v.) The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief.
(v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.
(v.) Courage; spirit.
(v.) Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.
(n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.
(n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business.
(n.) To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.
(n.) To have in mind; to purpose.
(n.) To put in mind; to remind.
(v. i.) To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.
Example Sentences:
(1) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(2) I forgave him because I know for a fact that he wasn't in his right mind," she said.
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(5) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(6) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(7) How big tobacco lost its final fight for hearts, lungs and minds Read more Shares in Imperial closed down 1% and British American Tobacco lost 0.75%, both underperforming the FTSE100’s 0.3% decline.
(8) This is a rare diagnosis but it should still be kept in mind, particularly in the immigrant population of the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia and particularly of the Saudis from the southern provinces.
(9) The patients must be examined with these disorders in mind and when any drug related illness is found, it must be treated immediately.
(10) This may have been a pointed substitute programme, management perhaps imagining a future where electronic presenters will simply download their minds to MP3-players.
(11) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
(12) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
(13) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
(14) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(15) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(16) While mindful of the potential difficulties which attend its introduction into the treatment situation there is an attempt to balance this position through a consideration of the appropriate conditions and modes of operation under which a humor-enriched approach may be efficacious.
(17) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
(18) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
(19) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
(20) That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling.
Sagacity
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1990, aged 42, I wrote an article for the New Statesman on the fortysomethings – the 60s generation, baby boomers, learning how to deal with the sag without yet acquiring sufficient sagacity to fight off the message that the secret to surviving a midlife crisis was holding back time with hormone replacement therapy.
(2) A youth-obsessed society that makes a mint from mining the alleged horrors of growing older – all sag and no sagacity – has locked us into a set of taboos that means millions of us are moving from middle age into possibly decades of allegedly unproductive, dependent, parked-up old age without sufficient armament or attitude of mind to challenge prevailing prejudices.
(3) At times, there were suspicions that the mask was all there was to Mandela; that had his grasp of the situation been quite limited, it would have made no difference to his reputation for sagacity, such was the mystique surrounding him.
(4) The Author has collaborate with the Anthos advised some sagacity and modifications, especially at the waterworks, for render "surgical" a regular odontological compact instrument.
(5) A cure for the ailing church “would require a much deeper ecclesial comprehension than the present leadership currently exhibit … There seems to be no sagacity, serious science or spiritual substance to the curatives being offered.” Rather, he says, the church “is being slowly kettled into becoming a suburban sect, corralling its congregations, controlling its clergy and centralising its communication.
(6) The sagacity of performing surgery for hip dislocations is raised.
(7) If seeming to lack dynamism, in conversation he conveyed an impression of calm sagacity and was widely respected in Sierra Leone.
(8) Questions are raised as to the strength of the evidence, the sagacity of abandoning the hypothesis, or the probability of this sample size detecting differences.
(9) Because of their sagacity, dwarves and jesters were not only allowed but expected to goad and pastiche the noble or the monarch they served, forever reminding their masters of the empty vanity of power.