Excogitate vs Imagine - What's the difference?
excogitate | imagine | Related terms |
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.
* Whewell
To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
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, title= To believe in something created by one's own mind.
To assume.
To conjecture or guess.
To use one's imagination.
(obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
* Bible, Psalms lxii. 3
Excogitate is a related term of imagine.
As verbs the difference between excogitate and imagine
is that excogitate is to think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate while imagine is .excogitate
English
Verb
(excogitat)- After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.
- This evidence thus excogitated out of the general theory.
imagine
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Verb
- In the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
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- How long will ye imagine mischief against a man?