Meanings of excogitate in English

In fact, it must require a considerable effort to excogitate novel labor-saving devices.

The black on the paper is what man has excogitated-excogitated

He rubbed the warm pipe bowl against his cheek and excogitated the matter in deep humility.

He meditated there in a condition of insanity for perhaps a minute, and excogitated a device.

But your modern lounger at the clubs, what variety of liquors are excogitated to please his palate!

At Calvary poets have sung their sweetest strains, and artists seen their sublimest visions, and thinkers excogitated their noblest ideas.

In a fourth a system of idealistic metaphysics is being excogitated; in a fifth the impossibility of metaphysics is being shown.

In fact, as I reached Delamere Terrace, panting and excogitating the likeliest excuse to offer Mrs. Stimcoe, the door of No.

All the conveniences that modern ingenuity has excogitated-inaccordance with the requirements of the present era-have been introduced into this huge structure.

The danger, therefore, is that many to avoid it will falsely confess whatever the examiner suggests or what they have excogitated in advance.

Each has now his memories, his tirade on this much-excogitated subject of the shirkers, and all begin to overflow and to talk at once.

The terrible Torquemada dwelt for years in Valla-dolid and must there have excogitated some of the methods of the Holy Office in dealing with heresy.