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.
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Excogitate
//ɛksˈkɒdʒɪ(ˌ)teɪt//
Synonyms for "excogitate" (43 found)
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Bulgarian
1 entries- обмислям verb (to think over carefully)
Finnish
4 entries- pohdiskella verb (to think over carefully)
- pohtia verb (to think over carefully)
- päätyä verb (to come to conclusion)
- tulla tulokseen verb (to come to conclusion)
Sample sentences
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Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death.
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After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.
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This evidence […] thus excogitated out of the general theory.
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