excogitation

He had half a mind to remain at home to conquer them by excogitation.

The comic of Jonson is a scholar's excogitation of the comic; that of Massinger a moralist's.

Excogitation, this combination of letters is to be found in the Doctor's works, though not in his Dictionary.

Before the excogitation of this splendid resolve, he had been observed to wear for some period a conspiratorial aspect.

No amount of pure inspection and excogitation could decide which belongs to which world.