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excogitate |
3 definitions found 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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