هَجَسَ

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هَجَسَI , or فِى صَدْرِهِ, or بِالقَلْبِ, Present.T ـِ or ـُ Verbal.Noun هَجْسٌ, The thing fell into, or occurred to, or bestirred itself in, his mind, or the mind; or occurred to his mind, or the mind, after having been for- gotten; syn. وَقَعَ and خَطَرَ; or, of the phrase in the A and that in the K, خَطَرَ بِبَالِهِ, and وَقَعَ فِى خَلَدِهِ: or هَجْسٌ signifies [the thing's] talking, or suggesting something, to the person's mind, in his bosom; expl. by the words أَنْ يُحَدِّثَ نَفْسَهُ فِى صَدْرِهِ; like وِسْوَاسٌ: and hence the phrase in a trad., وَمَا يَهْجِسُ فِى الضَّمَائِرِ, meaning, and what falls into, or occurs in, and bestirs itself in, the minds, (يَخْطُرُ بِهَا,) and revolves therein, of matters of discourse, and of thoughts: or هَجَسَ فِى صَدْرِى شَىْءٌ signifies i. q. حَدَسَ [app. meaning a thing came at random into my mind]: and you say also, هَجَسَ فى نَفْسِى [it fell into, or occurred to, my mind: &c.]

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