excogitation
Example Sentences
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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
Let it also be noted that this longitude reward was not a premium upon excogitation of a mysterious difficulty.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
In the excogitation of careful rules and the deft carrying out of those rules no literature can on the whole approach this except Greek.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
When we are alone we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
After much excogitation he arrived at a solution.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
