Definition of Excogitative

1. Adjective. Concerned with excogitating or having the power of excogitation.

Similar to: Thoughtful
Derivative terms: Excogitate

Definition of Excogitative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excogitative

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

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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