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excogitate
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Word definitions for excogitate in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent , contrive , devise , formulate , forge ] reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i. To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate. 2 To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.
Usage examples of excogitate.
It was long before little Isie got to sleep, what with attempting to realize the actual condition of Alec Forbes, and trying to excogitate the best means for his deliverance.
The writers who used these expressions did not mean that as reason is given by God, so whatever reason may excogitate is the word of God.
But they err who excogitate from it those severe dogmas which express only dreams of the imagination and wishes of the religious spirit.
I incline to believe that he had excogitated some extremely valuable ideas.
This had been painfully excogitated while the snowstorm whirled aboiut the lawn and filled the lanes, this was of the summer night, this of the harvest moon rising like a fire from the tithebarn on the hill.