Category: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.]

Defn: 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.

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

Defn: To cogitate. [R.] Bacon.