'Excogitate' definitions:
Definition of 'excogitate'
From: WordNet
verb
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge]
verb
Reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate]
Definition of 'Excogitate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Excogitate'
From: GCIDE
- Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i. To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'excogitate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- cogitate,
- contemplate,
- contrive,
- develop,
- educe,
- evolve,
- give thought to,
- invent,
- mind,
- perpend,
- ponder,
- puzzle out,
- reason out,
- sort out,
- study,
- think about,
- think out,
- think over,
- think through,
- think up,
- weigh