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

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

The following series of possibilities are curiously interesting, both from their partial subsequent realization, and from the simple credulity with which Bacon gives us that which he had known "a wise man explicitly excogitate."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

And to speak generally, in regard of things celestial he set his face against attempts to excogitate the machinery by which the divine power formed its several operations.

From The Memorabilia by Henry Graham Dakyns

But they err who excogitate from it those severe dogmas which express only dreams of the imagination and wishes of the religious spirit.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by J. F. (John Fletcher) Hurst

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

From Black Ivory by Francis B. Pearson

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

The philosophies excogitated by the insulated intellect help nothing toward even a glimpse of these secrets.

From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson

His Majesty, unwilling to proceed to extremities, and well aware that such measures sooner or later result in violent reactions, has excogitated a more fundamental and comprehensive measure, of which I need say no more.

From The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Could not I have excogitated this Without believing such men really were?

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke

A dozen forms exceedingly different might be excogitated, which, provided that they all agreed in being strange to a Roman, would, when moulded into a Latin form, become alike.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

It features essays by 22 scholars, all solemnly excogitating on such weighty matters as whether the horseshoes in his pictures are from dray horses or Thoroughbreds.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a marvellous thing that they who engage in excogitating this kind of double-meaning literature about bimetallism, should suppose that the people can any longer be deluded with it.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various

Hence, too, it is that we hunt through the mental train, excogitating from the present or some other, and from similar or contrary or coadjacent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

He set about excogitating an alphabet; but actually forgot to give names to his letters, which afterwards baffled him before literary men.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

An execrable Triumvirate—a scandalum magnatum to all public bodies: I suppose they and their adherents are now sitting in Pandemonium, excogitating their diabolical machinations against us.

From The Politician Out-Witted by Montrose Jonas Moses