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
The principles of analysis which he was charged with having borrowed without acknowledgment from Schlegel, with whose Shakespearian theories he was at the time entirely unacquainted, were in fact of his own excogitation.
From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
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
After much excogitation, she had decided to leave the roses in her hair, but it had taken her ten minutes to summon up courage to go downstairs.
From The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
