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8 definitions found for excogitate
Excogitate EXCOG'ITATE, v.t. [L. excogito; ex and cogito, to think.]
excogitate v 1: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, 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, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate]
excogitate transitive verb Etymology: Latin excogitatus, past participle of excogitare, from ex- + cogitare to cogitate Date: circa 1530 to think out ; devise • excogitation noun • excogitative adjective
excogitate
Excogitate Ex*cog"i*tatev. 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.
Excogitate Ex*cog"i*tate, v. i. To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon.
excogitate v. a. Think out, make up, invent, contrive, imagine, create.
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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