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

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

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 Tuckerman, Bayard

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)