The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excogitated
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.
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excogitated
vb. (en-past of: excogitate)
Usage examples of "excogitated".
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.