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.
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Excogitate strange arts."
Stirling.
This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory.
Whewell.
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Ex*cog"i*tate, v. i.
To cogitate.
[R.]
Bacon.
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