excogitation

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Truth for him is not to be found at the end of interminable, bed-ridden excogitation.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012

As in earlier volumes, he papers them over with epigram and excogitation, versiflage and vocabulary.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it was admittedly not an excogitation of the Brahmanical mind itself.

From Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Ellinwood, Frank F.

An old philosopher—a Descartes, suppose—fancied that out of primitive truths, which he could by ardent excogitation know, he might by pure deduction evolve the entire universe.

From The English Constitution by Bagehot, Walter

After much excogitation, she had decided to leave the roses in her hair, but it had taken her ten minutes to summon up courage to go downstairs.

From The Californians by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn