excogitation

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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit by Meredith, George

And the editorial apartment, how spacious, silent, and admirably adapted, in the dignity of its lines and furnishings, for the reception of Cabinet Ministers, and the excogitation of thunderbolts for the chancelleries of Europe!

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

The excogitation of this took long, partly because his mind was greatly exercised in the matter, and partly through a nervous desire to postpone the difficult moment.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony