EXCOGITATED

Verb

excogitated

simple past tense and past participle of excogitate

Source: Wiktionary


EXCOGITATE

Ex*cog"i*tate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excogitated; p. pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating.] Etym: [L. excogitatus, p. p. of excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See Cogitate.]

Definition: 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.

Ex*cog"i*tate, v. i.

Definition: To cogitate. [R.] Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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