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Definition of Excogitated
1. excogitate [v] - See also: excogitate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excogitated
Literary usage of Excogitated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Primitive Doctrine of Election: Or, An Historical Inquiry Into the by George Stanley Faber (1842)
"... for the purpose of meeting a difficulty which could not but be soon felt and
acknowledged, it was excogitated, from a very ancient period indeed, ..."
2. The Stenographer (1893)
"The excogitated phrase is exemplified in too much of the reading matter ...
The excogitated phrase, representing nothing desirable or even possible in ..."
3. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"By this I do not mean, of course, that I have excogitated them out of my inner
consciousness, as the Teutonic professor in the story is said to have ..."
4. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1904)
"By this I do not mean, of course, that I have excogitated them out of my inner
consciousness, as the Teutonic professor in the story is said to have ..."
5. Synthetica: Being Meditations Epistemological and Ontological by Simon Somerville Laurie (1906)
"He reveals Himself to be Love, Goodness, Justice, as governing ideas of man's
mind-organism—ideas to be excogitated and elaborated, doubtless, ..."
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