Crossword clues for excogitate
excogitate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excogitated; p.
pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating.] [L. excogitatus, p. p. of
excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See
Cogitate.]
To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise;
to contrive. ``Excogitate strange arts.''
--Stirling.
This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general
theory.
--Whewell.
Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i.
To cogitate. [R.]
--Bacon.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate. 2 To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.
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 afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate]
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.