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Excogitate - What does it mean?

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excogitate

English

Verb

(excogitat)
  • To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
  • * 2007': Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first '''excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death. — MF Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, ''London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3
  • To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.
    • After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.
  • * Whewell
    • This evidence thus excogitated out of the general theory.

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