To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually.
To find a seemingly rational explanation for something.
To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
To use (excessive) reasoning and rationalization to block out emotional stress and anxiety associated with painful or traumatic experiences.
To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
To ponder, to go over in one's head.
To guess; to reckon.
To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
To presume; to venture.
To seem, to appear.
To conceive of something or someone (usually followed by of; infrequently, by on).
To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
An act of thinking; consideration (of something).