单词 | excogitate |
释义 | † excogitateadj. 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. 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. 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). < adj.1531v.c1530 |
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