Excogitated vs Excogitates - What's the difference?
excogitated | excogitates |
(excogitate)
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.
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As verbs the difference between excogitated and excogitates
is that excogitated is past tense of excogitate while excogitates is third-person singular of excogitate.excogitated
English
Verb
(head)excogitate
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Verb
(excogitat)- After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.
- This evidence thus excogitated out of the general theory.