Excogitate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i.
     To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
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           This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general
           theory.                                  --Whewell.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excogitate
       v 1: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or
            priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to
            measure the speed of light" [syn: {invent}, {contrive},
            {devise}, {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}, {contemplate},
          {muse}, {reflect}, {mull}, {mull over}, {ruminate}, {speculate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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