8 definitions found for excogitate

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

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

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