Definition of Excogitator

1. Noun. A thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly.

Generic synonyms: Thinker
Derivative terms: Excogitate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excogitator

exclusivizes
exclusivizing
exclusory
excoct
excocted
excocting
excoction
excoctions
excogitate
excogitated
excogitates
excogitating
excogitation
excogitations
excogitative
excogitator (current term)
excommune
excommuned
excommunes
excommunicable
excommunicant
excommunicants
excommunicate
excommunicated
excommunicates
excommunicating
excommunication
excommunications
excommunicative
excommunicator

Literary usage of Excogitator

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

1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1893)
"... thus " remarked," the maxim has, as immemorially, been neglected in practice. To none can this remark be more fitly applied than to the excogitator of ..."

2. The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating The Last Years of the Stuarts by John Bagford, Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (1878)
"Tonge (or Tongue), Dr. Ezrael, or Israel, the early excogitator of the Popish Plot discovery, 648, 668 ; his living at Pluckley, in Kent, 690; his death, ..."

3. Johannis Wyclif Tractatus de Benedicta Incarnacione by John Wycliffe (1886)
"... ut sedulus excogitator I ¡al formi potest calculare.4 Et sic contra principia sancti Thome would belong to idem corpus in numero foret ..."

4. Pamphlets by Gaylord Dewitt Beebe, Prosper Bender, Henry Newell Guernsey, Gordon Maxwell Christine, Horace Marshfield Paine (1865)
"... to posterity as the exclusive excogitator and founder of an original system of medicine, as ingenious as many- thai preceded it, and destined, probably, ..."

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