Meaning of excogitate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
2. To reach as a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

Equivalents

Examples

“The first organs which Gall excogitated, he placed in the region of the sinus; and it is manifest he was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity.”

“Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death.”

“After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.”

“This evidence […] thus excogitated out of the general theory.”

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