excogitate
Verb
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Verb
excogitate (excogitates, present participle excogitating; past and past participle excogitated)
- 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.
- 2007, M. F. Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3
- 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.
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