There was no reply to the summons, and I was cogitating upon my next move when, happening to press against the door with my hand, I discovered that it was not latched.
While he was cogitating over this he heard a shrill whistle from below.
We find the same notion of a time-consuming activity also in some of the other verbs discussed above, such as cogitate and deliberate.
Cogitate and reflect are verbs which conceptualize the process of thinking as turning or shaping something in the mind.
Whereas cogitate refers to a revolving process, reflect means to give something a backward bend.