English Dictionary: excogitate | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i. To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon. | |
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. [bd]Excogitate strange arts.[b8] --Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. --Whewell. |