English to English
excogitate
(/E/ks'k/A//dZ//I/,t/eI/t
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verb (v)
come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort(verb.creation)
Example:
Excogitate a way to measure the speed of light.
source: wordnet30
reflect deeply on a subject(verb.cognition)
Example:
The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate.
Synonym:chew over,
contemplate,
meditate,
mull,
mull over,
muse,
ponder,
reflect,
ruminate,
speculate,
think over
source: wordnet30
To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.(verb)
source: webster1913
To cogitate.(verb)
source: webster1913
