The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excogitating
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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excogitating
vb. (present participle of excogitate English)