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▪ I. excogitate, v.|ɛksˈkɒdʒɪteɪt|
[f. L. excōgitāt- ppl. stem of excōgitāre to find out by thinking, f. ex- out + cōgitāre to think: see cogitate.]
1. trans. To think out; to construct, frame, or develop in thought; to contrive, devise. Also with inf. or sentence as obj.
c1530H. Dowes in Froude Hist. Eng. I. 39, I have endeavoured myself..to excogitate how I might most profit him. 1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. i. vi. 12 b, Plinie saieth he euer thought yt the Assirians Excogitated the letters, which Cadmus brought out of Phenice into Grece. 1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. clxxii. 734 The Ancients have excogitated many and sundry wayes for to find out the true time. 1665Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 167 Dr. Wilkins, Sir Wm. Petty, and Mr. Hooke, with our operator..are excogitating new rigging for ships. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xx. (1870) II. 4 We here excogitate no new, no occult principle. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. iii. 712 He..did at last excogitate How he might keep the good and leave the bad.
absol.1814Chalmers Evid. Chr. Revel. viii. 214 He ceases to observe, and begins to presume, or excogitate.
¶2. intr. = cogitate.
1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. ii. xxxvi. 266/1 When thereon I doe excogitate, Intrinsicall and querimonious paines Doe pulverise the concaue of my braines.
▪ II. † exˈcogitate, pple. Obs.
[ad. L. excōgitāt-us, pa. pple. of excōgitā-re: see prec.]
Used as pa. pple. of prec.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. vii, What noble statutes, ordinances, and actes of counsaile from time to time haue bene excogitate. 1542Henry VIII Declar. Scots 196 It appereth a playne deuise only excogitate for a delay. 1689tr. Buchanan's De Jure Regni 30 Honour..can be told or excogitate to be in any Man. |