excogitate

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Pronunciation

/ɛksˈkɒdʒɪ(ˌ)teɪt/

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/ɛksˈkɒdʒɪ(ˌ)teɪt/ · /ɛksˈkɑdʒəˌteɪt/

Definition of excogitate

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.

“The first organs which Gall excogitated, he placed in the region of the sinus; and it is manifest he was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity.”
“Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death.”

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verb

To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.

“The first organs which Gall excogitated, he placed in the region of the sinus; and it is manifest he was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity.”
“Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death.”
To reach as a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

“After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.”
“This evidence […] thus excogitated out of the general theory.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Latin excōgitāre, from ex- + cōgitāre (“think”).

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