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
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
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 A History of English Prose Fiction by Bayard Tuckerman
After much excogitation, she had decided to leave the roses in her hair, but it had taken her ten minutes to summon up courage to go downstairs.
From The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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
