excogitate

Example Sentences

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Bein’ hot I lay down in the lee of a bush to excogitate.

From Black Ivory by Pearson, Francis B.

Yet cause must be assigned, and the best form of words he could excogitate ran thus: 'Family circumstances render it desirable—almost necessary—that I should spend the next twelve months in London.

From Born in Exile by Gissing, George

In fact, it must require a considerable effort to excogitate novel labor-saving devices.

From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Wisthaler, Johanna S.

One morning he went out for a walk beyond the town limits to excogitate the final touches for some sentences that were to annihilate the infidel Frenchman.

From Casanova's Homecoming by Paul, Cedar

Here the little thinker is not often left to excogitate a theory for himself.

From Children's Ways by Sully, James