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Webster 1913 Edition
Excogitate
Ex-cog′i-tate
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Excogitated
(#)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
. Excogitating
.] 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.
Ex-cog′i-tate
,Verb.
I.
To cogitate.
[R.]
Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Excogitate
EXCOG'ITATE
,Verb.
T.
To invent; to strike out by thinking; to contrive.
Definition 2024
excogitate
excogitate
English
Verb
excogitate (third-person singular simple present excogitates, present participle excogitating, simple past and past participle excogitated)
- To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
- 2007: Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death. — **** Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3
- To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.
- After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.
- Whewell
- This evidence […] thus excogitated out of the general theory.
Translations
to think over carefully
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