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excogitation|ɛksˌkɒdʒɪˈteɪʃən|
[ad. L. excōgitātiōn-em, n. of action f. excōgitāre to think out: see excogitate.]
1. The action of excogitating; thinking out; reflection, mental contrivance. Const. of.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xxiii, To consideration pertaineth excogitation and auisement. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint. i. Pref. (1858) 3 Many of them cast away all their fair portion of time, in..excogitation of idle words. 1759Johnson Rasselas xliii, The labour of excogitation is too violent to last long. 1854H. Rogers Ess. (1860) II. 12 Patient excogitation must be the metaphysician's great instrument. 1865Dickens Mut. F. i. ii, To the excogitation of this problem, [he] had devoted many anxious hours.
2. A result of the action; a plan thought out; a contrivance, an invention.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 81 The second Experiment is one of the ingenious Excogitations of M. Gascoign's. a1687Petty Pol. Arith. i (1691) 21 All these Particulars, said to be the subtile Excogitations of the Hollanders. 1706Phillips, Excogitation, an Invention or Device. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. (1812) I. 292, I will impart my own simple excogitations. |