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excogitate vt. 想出,研究出,設計,發明 想出,研究出,設計,發明 excogitate v 1: come up with ( an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; " excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" [ synonym: { invent}, { contrive}, { devise}, { excogitate}, { formulate}, { forge}] 2: reflect deeply on a subject; " I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; " philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; " The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [ synonym: { chew over}, { think over}, { meditate}, { ponder}, { excogitate}, { contemplate}, { muse}, { reflect}, { mull}, { mull over}, { ruminate}, { speculate}] Excogitate \ Ex* cog" i* tate\ v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Excogitated}; p. pr. & vb. n.. { Excogitating}.] [ L. excogitatus, p. p. of excogitare to excogitate; ex out cogitare to think. See { Cogitate}.] To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. " Excogitate strange arts." -- Stirling. [ 1913 Webster] This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. -- Whewell. [ 1913 Webster]
Excogitate \ Ex* cog" i* tate\, v. i. To cogitate. [ R.] -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 21 Moby Thesaurus words for " excogitate": cogitate, contemplate, contrive, develop, educe, evolve, give thought to, invent, mind, perpend, ponder, puzzle out, reason out, sort out, study, think about, think out, think over, think through, think up, weigh
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