cogitate, contrive, educe, give thought to, mind, ponder, reason out, study, think out, think through, weigh
Definitionv. come up with
Last update: September 3, 2015
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"But yet as it is best, if we wish to understand the nature of plants or of men, to consider how they may by degrees proceed from seeds, rather than how they were created by God in the beginning of the world, so, if we can excogitate some extremely simple and comprehensible principles, out of which, as if they were seeds, we can prove that stars, and earth and all this visible scene could have originated, although we know full well that they never did originate in such a way, we shall in that way expound their nature far better than if we merely described them as they exist at present." [Please select]
He rubbed the warm pipe bowl against his cheek and excogitated the matter in deep humility. [Please select]
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Bein' hot I lay down in the lee of a bush to excogitate.' [Please select]
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More than this my friend could not tell, so that's w'y I went to excogitate.' [Please select]
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"I can't say as I did, sir, but it was cooriously enough excogitated _for_ me." [Please select]
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His Majesty, unwilling to proceed to extremities, and well aware that such measures sooner or later result in violent reactions, has excogitated a more fundamental and comprehensive measure, of which I need say no more. [Please select]
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