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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
excogitate
    v 1: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or
         principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to
         measure the speed of light" [syn: invent, contrive,
         devise, excogitate, formulate, forge]
    2: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the
       afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of
       God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to
       observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think
       over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate,
       muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate,
       speculate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excogitated; p.
   pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating.] [L. excogitatus, p. p. of
   excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See
   Cogitate.]
   To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise;
   to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." --Stirling.
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         This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general
         theory.                                  --Whewell.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Excogitate \Ex*cog"i*tate\, v. i.
   To cogitate. [R.] --Bacon.
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Thesaurus Results for Excogitate:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
cogitate, contemplate, contrive, develop, educe, evolve, give thought to, invent, mind, perpend, ponder, puzzle out, reason out, sort out, study, think about, think out, think over, think through, think up, weigh
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