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excogitate vt. 想出,研究出,设计,发明 想出,研究出,设计,发明 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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