Hypertext Webster Gateway: "excogitate"
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. ``Excogitate strange arts.'' --Stirling.
This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general
theory. --Whewell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i.
To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
excogitate
v : come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or
priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to
measure the speed of light" [syn: {invent}, {contrive}, {devise},
{formulate}, {forge}]
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