Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i.
To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general
theory. --Whewell.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
excogitate
v 1: 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]
2: 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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "excogitate":
cogitate, contemplate, contrive, develop, educe, evolve,
give thought to, invent, mind, perpend, ponder, puzzle out,
reason out, sort out, study, think about, think out, think over,
think through, think up, weigh
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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