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Webster's 1828 DictionaryEXCOG'ITATE, v.t. [L. excogito; ex and cogito, to think.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)v Merriam Webster'stransitive verb Etymology: Latin excogitatus, past participle of excogitare, from ex- + cogitare to cogitate Date: circa 1530 to think out Oxford Reference Dictionaryv.tr. think out; contrive. Derivatives: excogitation n. Etymology: L excogitare excogitat- (as EX-(1), cogitare COGITATE) Webster's 1913 DictionaryExcogitate 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. Webster's 1913 DictionaryExcogitate Ex*cog"i*tate, v. i. To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
Moby Thesauruscogitate, 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 |