excogitate

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He codifies the catch questions of previous university preliminaries, excogitates similar weird lists of anomalies and exceptions, and doses the pupils on such stuff instead of really teaching the important parts of his subject.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

For this very reason, the vigilant will excogitates expedients, which help memory in its weakness, and are its aids.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto