excogitate
verb (used with object)
excogitation
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a word derived from
excogitate.
Example Sentences
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Truth for him is not to be found at the end of interminable, bed-ridden excogitation.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
The excogitation of this took long, partly because his mind was greatly exercised in the matter, and partly through a nervous desire to postpone the difficult moment.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
When we are alone, we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Bayard Tuckerman
Do not exact from yourself, at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
It is often alleged that the circumstances of modern literature do not permit of that leisure which is necessary to the excogitation of a carefully developed technique or a sound style.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
