Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Excogitated}; p.
pr. & vb. n.. {Excogitating}.] [L. excogitatus, p. p. of
excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See
{Cogitate}.]
To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise;
to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." --Stirling.
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This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general
theory. --Whewell.
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