Excogitate

Definition: Excogitate

Excogitate

Verb

1. Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "excogitate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Synonyms: Excogitate

Imagination

Set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention; rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains; excogitate; brainstorm.

Thought

Verb: think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate, consider, deliberate; bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate, meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert, study; bend -, apply mind; (attend); digest, discuss, hammer at, weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy; (imagine); trow.

Crosswords: Excogitate

Albanian

sajoj (coin, concoct, cook, cook up, counterfeit, devise, engineer, fabricate, invent, lay out, patch up, prefabricate, strike out, think up, toss up, vamp, weave). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تفكر فى, ‏درس (case, classes, consideration, din into, elaborate, examine, go over, instruction, learn, learning, lecture, lesson, period, profess, read, read up, reading, study, talk over, teach, think out, tutor, view). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съчинявам (compose, indite, invent, make, make up, mint, pen, put together), измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, evolve, fabricate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references)

Czech

vymyslit (contrive, cook up, form, hammer out, make up, think up). (various references)

French

enseigner, réfléchir. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"מציא (contrive, devise, furnish, invent, make up, originate, present, provide, submit, think up). (various references)

Hungarian

kigondol (cogitate, conceive, devise, think out, to cogitate, to contrive, to cook up, to design, to devise, to father, to figure out, to figure up, to think out), kieszel (hammer, mint, to contrive, to cook up, to devise, to hammer out, to mint, to plot, to strike out, to think out, to think up sg). (various references)

Pig Latin

excogitateay

Portuguese

excogitar, exclusivamente (all, alone, exclusively, expressly, selectly, solely). (various references)

Russian 

выдумывать (dream up, invent), придумывать (concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, fictionalize, invent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

duboko razmišljati. (various references)

Spanish

idear por (contrive, devise), hacer ideal. (various references)

Swedish

tänka ut (bethink, cogitate, devise, lay out, premeditate, think out), hitta på (conceive, concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, fabricate, fake, fake up, feign, find out, invent, manufacture). (various references)

Turkish

düşünmek (allow, balance, be pensive, bethink oneself, cerebrate, cogitate, conceive, consider, consult, contemplate, deliberate, envision, fancy, figure, give a thought, give thought to, imagine, intend, meditate, opine, reason, reflect, remember, ruminate, suppose, think, think of), düşünerek bulmak, çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

Ukranian 

вигадувати (coin, conceit, concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, fabricate, feign, fib, fudge, invent, make believe, mint, romance, think out), міркувати (brood over, cogitate, contemplate, deliberate, descant, dwell, meditate, peruse, pore, ratiocinate, reason, speculate). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "excogitate": excogitated, excogitates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Excogitate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: excogitare. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cogitate.

-3 letters: cottage, exotica.

-4 letters: cattie, coatee, cottae, excite, exotic, goatee, taxite, togate.

-5 letters: attic, axite, coati, cotta, coxae, exact, octet, tacet, tacit, tecta, togae, toxic.

+1 letter: excogitated, excogitates.

+2 letters: excogitative.

+3 letters: expectorating.

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