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单词 excogitate
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excogitateadj.

Etymology: < Latin excōgitātus, past participle of excōgitāre : see excogitate v.
Obsolete.
Used as past participle of excogitate v.
ΚΠ
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. vii. sig. Qv What noble statutes, ordinances, and actis of counsaile, from time to time haue bene excogitate.
1542 King Henry VIII Declar. Causes Warre Scottis 196 It appereth a playne deuise only excogitate for a delay.
1680 ‘Philalethes’ tr. G. Buchanan De Jure Regni apud Scotos 59 Honour..can be told or excogitat to be in any man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

excogitatev.

/ɛksˈkɒdʒɪteɪt/
Etymology: < Latin excōgitāt- participial stem of excōgitāre to find out by thinking, < ex- out + cōgitāre to think: see cogitate v.
1. transitive. To think out; to construct, frame, or develop in thought; to contrive, devise. Also with infinitive or sentence as object.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > think or have in mind [verb (transitive)] > think out
out-thinka1382
to think outa1382
musea1400
excogitatec1530
to run over ——1565
to think through1748
c1530 H. Dowes in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 39 I have endeavoured myself..to excogitate how I might most profit him.
1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. vi. 12 b Plinie saieth he euer thought yt the Assirians Excogitated the letters, which Cadmus brought out of Phenice into Grece.
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. clxxii. 734 The Ancients have excogitated many and sundry wayes for to find out the true time.
1665 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 167 Dr. Wilkins, Sir Wm. Petty, and Mr. Hooke, with our operator..are excogitating new rigging for ships.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xx. 4 We here excogitate no new, no occult principle.
1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. iii. 194 He..did at last excogitate How he might keep the good and leave the bad.
absolute.1814 T. Chalmers Evid. Christian Revel. viii. 214 He ceases to observe, and begins to presume, or excogitate.
2. intransitive. = cogitate v.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > think [verb (intransitive)]
howOE
mintOE
thinkOE
panse1559
tink1584
excogitate1630
cogitate1633
intelligize1803
nut1919
cerebrate1928
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > meditate, reflect [verb (intransitive)]
howOE
study?c1225
bethinkc1300
muse1340
recorda1400
imaginec1400
to take thoughtc1450
contemplaire1474
medite1483
remord1535
contemplate?1538
ruminate1547
meditate1560
scance1606
excogitate1630
cogitate1633
reflect1772
1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. xxxvi. 266/1 When thereon I doe excogitate, Intrinsicall and querimonious paines Doe pulverise the concaue of my braines.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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