excogitate

present singular third person excogitates · participle present excogitating · participle past excogitated · past excogitated

1. To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.

   Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death.

   2007, M. F. Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3

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   The first organs which Gall excogitated, he placed in the region of the sinus; and it is manifest he was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity.

   a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC

2. To reach as a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

   After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.

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   This evidence […] thus excogitated out of the general theory.

   1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences