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 Ex·cog·i·tate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excogitated p. pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating.]  To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. “Excogitate strange arts.”
    This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory.   --Whewell.