excogitate

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Yet even Varchi shares the prevailing conviction that the proper method is first to excogitate a perfect political system, and then to impress that like a stamp upon the material of the commonwealth.

From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington

"Shall I to him"—Sister Margaret paused to excogitate the Yiddish word—"write?"

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

And he had four days a week in which to excogitate new methods of creating a fortune.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

I wouldn't put the question to you for the world, and expose you to the inconvenience of having to—a— excogitate an answer.

From Washington Square by James, Henry

No other author would have taken the trouble to excogitate him, and then treat him so badly.

From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius