pensée

See also:pensee

English

Etymology

BorrowedfromFrenchpensée.Doubletofpansy.

Noun

pensée(pluralpensées)

1. Athought.
   • 1980December 13, Michael Bronski, “A Longing For Passion To Transcend Thought”, inGay Community News,volume 8, number21,page12:

     Words come after words with little punctuation, and because the lines are short our eyes fall down the page, scanning, shifting, making sense of each as it follows or comes upon the next. Yet, rather than a rush of feelings, the lines arepensees:a flow that incites intellectually, not viscerally.

Related terms

• arrière-pensée

Anagrams

• epeens

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/pɑ̃.se/

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Participle

penséefsg

1. femininesingularofpensé

Noun

penséef(pluralpensées)

1. athought(first attested 1176 inChrétien de Troyes,Cligès,ed. A. Micha, 5246)
2. reflection,meditation,facultyofthinking(late 12th century)
   • late 12th century,Orson de Beauvais:

     Bonepansée( “wise reflection” ).

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   • 1216,Guillaume Le Clerc, edited by W. Frescoln,Fergus,published3093:

     Rentrer en sapensée.

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   • 1278,Sarrazin,edited by A. Henry,Roman du Hem,published4502:

     Entrer en unepensée.

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3. (in the expression “être en pensée”)worry,concern(late 12th century)
   • late 12th century,Eneas,ms. A (second edition):

     Estre enpensépor.

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   • first half of the 13th century,La fille du Comte de Ponthieu,ed. C. Brunel, 288-289 and 379:

     Estre en molt griefpensée;estre en mout grantpenséede (aucun).

   • 18 September 1789,letter ofArchduchess Elisabethto the later emperorJoseph II,published inArchiv für österreichische Geschichte,vol. 44 (1871),p. 204:

     Je ne puis dormir, toujours je suis enpenséeavec la moitié de moi-même et les dangers auxquels vous êtes exposé se représentent si vivement à mon imagination qu’ils m’ôtent tout sommeil.

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4. themindas theseatof thinking (c. 1200)
5. (obsolete)amorousattachment(c. 1200)
6. mannerof thinking (c. 1215)
7. anideacoming up in one's mind (c. 1220 inAnseïs de Carthage,332)
8. theguidingidea of adecisionmade or one'swill(c. 1274 inAdenet Le Roi,Berte,1644)
9. moraldisposition(first quarter of 13th century)
10. anoperationof the mind (since 1636)
11. ideaexpressedby anauthorin aliteraryorartisticwork (since 1621)
    • 1621,Étienne Binet,Essai des merveilles de Nature,chap. X, p. 201:

      Jetter ses premièrespenséessur la toile.

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    • 1669,Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion:
    • 1801,Académie françaiseand Samuel Heinrich Catel,Dictionnaire de l'Académie Françoise,vol. 4, de Lagarde, Paris,p. 324:

      Travestir une pensée ( “disguise an idea, represent it under a different form” ).

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12. thinking,worldviewof an author

    Travestir lapenséed'un auteur.

13. apansy(plant)(c. 1460)

Derived terms

• arrière-pensée
• école de pensée
• expérience de pensée
• lire dans les pensées

Descendants

• English:pansy
  • Japanese:パンジー(panjī)
• Greek:πανσές(pansés)
• Vietnamese:păng-xê

Further reading

• “pensée”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• pensee

Noun

penséef(pluralpensées)

1. thought

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

penséef(pluralpensées)

1. (Jersey)pansy

Synonyms

• faches dé cat