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
After much excogitation he arrived at a solution.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
And it was admittedly not an excogitation of the Brahmanical mind itself.
From Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. Ellinwood
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
In the excogitation of careful rules and the deft carrying out of those rules no literature can on the whole approach this except Greek.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
