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Excogitation

//ɛksˌkɒdʒɪˈteɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Careful thought or consideration. countable, uncountable

    "c. 1672, William Petty - Political Arithmetick, p. 21. […] the subtile excogitations of the Hollanders […]"

  2. 2
    the creation of something in the mind wordnet
  3. 3
    thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it wordnet

Etymology

From Latin excogitatio.

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