Definition of Excogitating

1. Verb. (present participle of excogitate) ¹

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Definition of Excogitating

1. excogitate [v] - See also: excogitate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excogitating

exclusivities
exclusivity
exclusivize
exclusivized
exclusivizes
exclusivizing
exclusory
excoct
excocted
excocting
excoction
excoctions
excogitate
excogitated
excogitates
excogitating (current term)
excogitation
excogitations
excogitative
excogitator
excommune
excommuned
excommunes
excommunicable
excommunicant
excommunicants
excommunicate
excommunicated
excommunicates
excommunicating

Literary usage of Excogitating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... which we see the bewigged embonpoint of the didactic poet, excogitating epigrams or ecstatic soliloquies by the light of a candle fixed in a skull. ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1889)
"Hence, too, it is that we hunt through the mental train, excogitating [what we seek] from [its concomitant in] THE PRESENT OR ..."

3. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1906)
"excogitating. No one may ever have been guided in the past by any such absolute plan. For this same reason, if (to take up the other supposition) you are a ..."

4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1858)
"To some extent, no doubt, the author must be taken to endorse his hero's views, for the mere fact of excogitating and publishing them to the world, ..."

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