excogitate

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Last month, having excogitated 290 questions and created perhaps the most elaborate thinking test ever devised, they stunned a group of the nation's smartest high-school graduates with it.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a fourth a system of idealistic metaphysics is being excogitated; in a fifth the impossibility of metaphysics is being shown.

From Pragmatism by James, William

Here, for a week or a fortnight, the candidates sat and excogitated, unable to lie down at night, sleeping, if they could, in their chairs.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

But the details had not been very fully excogitated, and his foremost thought, after all, was simply to popularize the Thalia, which was largely caviare to the general.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

When the idea is accepted odd devices are excogitated by the active little brain for making it intelligible.

From Children's Ways by Sully, James