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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXCOG'ITATE, v.t. [L. excogito; ex and cogito, to think.]
To invent; to strike out by thinking; to contrive.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

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

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. think out; contrive. Derivatives: excogitation n. Etymology: L excogitare excogitat- (as EX-(1), cogitare COGITATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Excogitate Ex*cog"i*tate, v. i. To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Think out, make up, invent, contrive, imagine, create.

Moby Thesaurus

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