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Definition of Excogitations
1. excogitation [n] - See also: excogitation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excogitations
Literary usage of Excogitations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sex and life: What the Experienced Should Teach and what the Inexperienced by Walter Franklin Robie (1920)
"... CHAPTER V APHORISTIC excogitations Science vertus Common Sense THE work of
the neurologist is, in the last analysis, ..."
2. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1891)
"... and on the blundering excogitations relating to the subject, too often found
in the text-books put into the hands of students of medicine. ..."
3. Spiritual Life: Illustrated in a Series of Disquisitions : Relative to Its by George Duffield (1832)
"It will be perceived that we do not speak of those excogitations, which are
peculiar to individuals, and fearfully delusive and absolutely false, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"As Mr. Bather said in discussing a similar case some time ago, what does the
scientific world care for his private excogitations over material too imperfect ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1905)
"excogitations, there is something of which you can only say, "I cannot think
otherwise," and ..."
6. Music in the History of the Western Church: With an Introduction on by Edward Dickinson (1902)
"Shall we throw them into the fire to make room for neat and appropriate excogitations,
fresh from the blotting-pad of Mr. A, or Dr. B, or the Reverend C, ..."
7. The Bookman (1910)
"excogitations. His face was serious, reflective and reminiscent. That was its
prevalent expression. I knew him for nearly thirty years, and cannot remember ..."
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