EXCOGITATE

excogitate. excogitate, to muse, or deuise exactly.

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excogitate. Excogitate, v.t. to invent, strike out, hit off

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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. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.