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excogitate

Syllables: ex·co·gi·ta·teUK/ɛksˈkɒdʒɪ(ˌ)teɪt//ɛksˈkɑdʒəˌteɪt/

excogitate verb: to think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.

Verb

excogitate (third-person singular simple present excogitates, present participle excogitating, simple past and past participle excogitated)

  1. To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
    • The first organs which Gall excogitated, he placed in the region of the sinus; and it is manifest he was then in happy unacquaintance with everything connected with that obnoxious cavity.a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood...
    • Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death.2007, M. F. Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3
  2. To reach as a conclusion through reason or careful thought.
    • After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.
    • This evidence […] thus excogitated out of the general theory.1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

excogitate meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

excogitate in Bengali

পুরোপুরি বিবেচনা করা, ভাবনা করা

excogitate in Malayalam

പരിചിന്തനം ചെയ്യുക, ആലോചിച്ചു കണ്ടുപിടിക്കുക

excogitate in Kannada

ಚಿಂತಿಸು, ಯೋಚಿಸು, ಆಲೋಚನೆ ಮಾಡು, ಕಲ್ಪಿಸು, ಯೋಜಿಸು, ಉಪಾಯ ಹುಡುಕು

Forms of excogitate

third-person singular presentexcogitates
present participleexcogitating
past participleexcogitated
pastexcogitated

Origin of excogitate

From Latin excōgitāre, from ex- + cōgitāre (“think”).

Words formed from excogitate

Questions about excogitate

What does excogitate mean?
Excogitate means to think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.
What is excogitate in Bengali?
Excogitate in Bengali is পুরোপুরি বিবেচনা করা, ভাবনা করা. See Excogitate meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is excogitate?
Excogitate is a verb.
How do you pronounce excogitate?
Excogitate is pronounced /ɛksˈkɒdʒɪ(ˌ)teɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of excogitate?
The past tense of excogitate is excogitated.

Words near excogitate in the dictionary

  1. excoction
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  3. excocts
  4. excoecarianin
  5. excogitable
  6. excogitate
  7. excogitated
  8. excogitates
  9. excogitating
  10. excogitation
  11. excogitations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excogitate (page history and authors); excogitate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excogitate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excogitate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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