excogitate

Example Sentences

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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 Wisthaler, Johanna S.

The writers who used these expressions did not mean that as reason is given by God, so whatever reason may excogitate is the word of God.

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

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

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

One morning he went out for a walk beyond the town limits to excogitate the final touches for some sentences that were to annihilate the infidel Frenchman.

From Casanova's Homecoming by Paul, Cedar

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