excogitate

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin excōgitāre, from ex- + cōgitāre ‘think’.

[edit] Verb

to excogitate (third-person singular simple present excogitates, present participle excogitating, simple past and past participle excogitated)

1. To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
   • 2007: Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death. — MF Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3
2. To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

   After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.