Excogitating

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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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