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Definition of Excogitates
1. excogitate [v] - See also: excogitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excogitates
Literary usage of Excogitates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"Diligence promptly executes what intelligence slowly excogitates. Hurry is the
failing of fools ; they know not the crucial point and set to work without ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"'Tis ever on it, All unlike the little bard Who excogitates a sonnet After labour
long and hard. RICHARD DOYLE. (IN MEMORIAM.) Double-handed he deals out ..."
3. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... and are free from the elaborate ingenuities and harshness that mar most efforts
of this kind. A typical example is iii. 72. Jurenka excogitates: Ti (701 ..."
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