Define the word excogitate"Excogitate" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i.
To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon.
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"Excogitate" gcide "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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"excogitate" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
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]
"excogitate" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
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
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