Mind | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Mind, n.

noun

n. [A-S. mynd, gemynd, gemund, Dan. minde, mind, memory, remembrance, consent, vote; Sw. minne, memory; Icel. minni, memory, monument; Icel. mynd, form, effigy; O. H. Ger. minna, minja, memory, love, gemunt, memory, commemoration, Goth. munds, gamunds, memory, allied to Lat. mens, mentis, Gr. μένος.]

Sense 1. The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul.

By the mind of man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills. Reid.

What we mean by mind is simply that which perceives, thinks, feels, wills, and desires. Sir W. Hamilton.

Sense 2. State, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as, (a.) Opinion; sentiment; judgment; belief.

Being so hard to me that brought your mind.

I fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling her mind. Shak.

(b.) Choice; inclination; desire; liking; intent; purpose; will.

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination; how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind! Prov. xxi. 27.

(c.) Courage; spirit. Chapman.

Sense 3. Memory; remembrance; recollection; — in such phrases as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, and the like.

To make up one's mind, to come to an opinion or decision; to determine.

Mind, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. MINDED; p. pr. & vb. n. MINDING.] [A-S. myndan, gemyndan, to remind; Dan. minde, to put in mind of, remind, warn, admonish, Sw. minnas, to remember, to call to mind, Icel. minni, to remember, mynda, to form, feign, O. H. Ger. mundjan, gamundjan, to remember, Goth. gamunan. See supra.]

Sense 1. To attend to; to fix the thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as a thing of consequence; to heed; to mark; to note.

Mind not high things. Rom. xii. 16.

He set himself wholly to mind the East India trade. Burnet.

Cease to request me; let us mind our way. Dryden.

Sense 2. To have in mind; to bear in remembrance; to have in intent. [Rare.]

He minded not, meantime, what, no doubt, he knew well. Fuller.

Sense 3. To put in mind; to remind. [Obs.]

He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things. Fuller.

I do thee wrong to mind thee of it. Shak.

Did he not mind me of my danger? Baxter.

Never mind, do not regard it; it is of no consequence; no matter.

Synonyms— To notice; mark; regard; observe; obey.

Mīnd, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To be inclined, or disposed to incline.

One of them mindeth to go into rebellion. Spenser.

I mind to tell him plainly what I think. Shak.