| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb excogitate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (excogitate) | 1. Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light".[Wordnet]. 2. Reflect deeply on a subject; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate".[Wordnet]. 3. To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.[Websters]. 4. To cogitate.[Websters]. 5. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: excogitating, excogitated, excogitates, excogitater, excogitaters, excogitatingly and excogitatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EXCOGITATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
Specialty Definition: excogitate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To invent; to strike out by thinking; to contrive.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought. After many years of study, he excogitated a solution. (references) | 2: [Verb] To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate. 2007: Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death. — MF Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives', London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3. (references) | |
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