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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Excogitate

· Ex·cog·i·tate · IPA /ɛksˈkɑdʒəˌteɪt/
01 v. t. To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.
imp. & p. p. Excogitated
  1. 1.
    To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.
    “This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory.” Whewell.
02 v. i. To cogitate.
  1. 1.
    To cogitate.[R.]