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come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
excogitate a way to measure the speed of light -
reflect deeply on a subject
philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
I mulled over the events of the afternoon
How To Use excogitate In A Sentence
- In fact, it must require a considerable effort to excogitate novel labor-saving devices. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
- 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
- He also owes debts to the cultural anthropology of Clifford Geertz and to the theory of scientific revolutions excogitated by Thomas Kuhn.
- 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
- Whoever it was, he must have excogitated the idea at a distance, and in some splenetic humour; it never could have entered through his eyesight standing here. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
- Those, therefore, who have excogitated [the theory of] emissions have not discovered anything great, or revealed any abstruse mystery, when they have simply transferred what all understand to the only-begotten Word of God; and while they style Him unspeakable and unnameable, they nevertheless set forth the production and formation of ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
- In Twelfth Night or What You Will, the subtitle, I assume, refers to what an audience desires, not to what a director excogitates.
- At the heart of the social vision prevalent among contemporary intellectuals is the belief that there are "problems" created by existing institutions and that "solutions" to these problems can be excogitated by intellectuals. Notable & Quotable
