What is "philosophise"

Usage examples of "philosophise".

The good man began to philosophise and to jest on her malady, and he told me some stories, germane to the question, which the girls pretended not to understand.

Hedvig philosophised over pleasure, and told me she would never have known it if I had not chanced to meet her uncle.

NED BASHFORD, A jaded young man of the world, who has philosophised his experiences and who is without faith in the veracity or purity of women.

Teufelsbuerst, without philosophising about it, called his preparation simply a love-philtre, a concoction well known by name, but the composition of which was the secret of only a few.

There was something fantastic to him in this sudden philosophising by one whom he had watched grow up from a tiny thing.

Hilary, a philosophising person--that she was as real as himself--suffering, hoping, feeling, not his hopes and feelings, but her own.

Here Cardan the elder stopped, and Jerome, his son, philosophised on the subject.

The unsatisfactory character of all speculations having for their object ‘nonentities with formidable names,’ should long ere this have opened men’s eyes to the folly of _multiplying causes without necessity_--another rule of philosophising, for which we are indebted to Newton, but to which no superstitious philosophiser pays due attention.

This is the inquiry of him who philosophises in reality and labours to bring forth [truth].