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excogitating

excogitating is the present participle and gerund of excogitate.

Meaning of excogitate

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...
  2. To reach as a conclusion through reason or careful thought.
    • After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.

Questions about excogitating

What is excogitating the present participle and gerund of?
Excogitating is the present participle and gerund of excogitate.

Words near excogitating in the dictionary

  1. excoecarianin
  2. excogitable
  3. excogitate
  4. excogitated
  5. excogitates
  6. excogitating
  7. excogitation
  8. excogitations
  9. excogitative
  10. excogitator
  11. excogitators

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