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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Excogitate \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i.
To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
excogitate
v : come up with [syn: {invent}, {contrive}, {devise}, {formulate},
{forge}]
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