cogitate

How To Use cogitate In A Sentence

• In fact, it must require a considerable effort to excogitate novel labor-saving devices. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
• The apodeictical proposition cogitates the assertorical as determined by these very laws of the understanding, consequently as affirming a priori, and in this manner it expresses logical necessity. The Critique of Pure Reason
• Murray and I cogitated and decided that the only way forward was to check every four-figure prefix. Appreciation: Murray Sayle obituary
• All the conveniences that modern ingenuity has excogitated -- in accordance with the requirements of the present era -- have been introduced into this huge structure. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
• And because they doubted, that the Volscians would not easely be perswaded thereunto, beinge so oft vanquished and ill intreated, they excogitated some other newe occasion. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
• The terrible Torquemada dwelt for years in Valladolid and must there have excogitated some of the methods of the Holy Office in dealing with heresy. Familiar Spanish Travels
• Considering the divorce rate in this country, one might cogitate on why so many people still want to get hitched.
• He also owes debts to the cultural anthropology of Clifford Geertz and to the theory of scientific revolutions excogitated by Thomas Kuhn.
• I need to cogitate and ruminate on it a bit more before the official electoral prediction.
• It is said that at an early age he disliked the Logic of Aristotle, and began to excogitate his system of English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction