a thought (first attested 1176 in Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, ed. A. Micha, 5246) / reflection, meditation, faculty of thinking (late 12th century) / worry, concern (late 12th century) / the mind as the seat of thinking (c. 1200) / amorous attachment (c. 1200) / manner of thinking (c. 1215) / an idea coming up in one's mind (c. 1220 in Anseïs de Carthage, 332) / the guiding idea of a decision made or one's will (c. 1274 in Adenet Le Roi, Berte, 1644) / moral disposition (first quarter of 13th century) / an operation of the mind (since 1636) / idea expressed by an author in a literary or artistic work (since 1621) / thinking, worldview of an author / a pansy (plant) (c. 1460)