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Excogitate

//ɛksˈkɒdʒɪ(ˌ)teɪt// verb

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

    "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."

  2. 2
    reflect deeply on a subject wordnet
  3. 3
    To reach as a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

    "After many years of study, he excogitated a solution."

  4. 4
    come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort wordnet

Etymology

From Latin excōgitāre, from ex- + cōgitāre (“think”).

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