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Verb.

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imp. & p. p.

Excogitated

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p. pr. & vb. n.

Excogitating

[L.

excogitatus

, p. p. of

excogitare

to excogitate;

out +

cogitare

to think. See

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

“Excogitate strange arts.”

Stirling.

This evidence . . . thus

excogitated

out of the general theory.

Whewell.

Verb.

To cogitate.

[R.]

Bacon.

Verb.

[L. excogito; ex and cogito, to think.]

To invent; to strike out by thinking; to contrive.