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Definition of Excogitative
1. Adjective. Concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation.
Definition of Excogitative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excogitative
Literary usage of Excogitative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Idling in Italy: Studies of Literature and of Life by Joseph Collins (1920)
"... consciously excogitative and inventive. In other words, he has talent, not
genius. Genius does what it must, talent what it can. ..."
2. Japanese Notions of European Political Economy: Being a Summary of a by James Love (1900)
"In reply, I put it thus : excogitative Court, ! JOHN DoE, Plaintiff, •N IN RE
Perpetual Term. j m- J RICHARD ROE, Defendant. Now cometh the plaintiff, ..."
3. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1898)
"The existence of atoms, their size as a sixth of the visible, and their cohesion
by force, are so much excogitative ..."
4. On Natural Theology by Thomas Chalmers (1857)
"The one was mainly an excogitative ; the other mainly a descriptive process—a
description however extending to the likenesses as well as to the ..."
5. The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine (1860)
"In a word, the excogitative energy of the mind, directed by the imagination
towards the/or<A-figuring of some already pre-figured conception— the bodifying ..."
6. The British Pulpit, Consisting of Discourses by the Most Eminent Living by William Suddards (1845)
"... looking hefore anc after—powers intellectual and sentient— powers instinctive
and excogitative — powers of understanding to know, of will to determine, ..."
7. The Works of the Rev. Daniel Waterland: To which is Prefixed a Review of the by Daniel Waterland, William Van Mildert (1856)
"... to that overweening pride of intellect, which disdains to receive, as necessary
truth, any doctrine not discoverable by its own excogitative powers, ..."
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