excogitation

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Truth for him is not to be found at the end of interminable, bed-ridden excogitation.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012

As in earlier volumes, he papers them over with epigram and excogitation, versiflage and vocabulary.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

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 Saintsbury, George

Let it also be noted that this longitude reward was not a premium upon excogitation of a mysterious difficulty.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene