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Cogitate vs. Excogitate — What's the Difference?

Cogitate vs. Excogitate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Cogitate and Excogitate

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Cogitate

To take careful thought or think carefully about; ponder.

Excogitate

To consider or think (something) out carefully and thoroughly.

Cogitate

(intransitive) To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.

Excogitate

To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.

Cogitate

(transitive) To consider, to devise.
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Excogitate

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

Cogitate

To engage in continuous thought; to think.
He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.

Excogitate

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.
This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory.

Cogitate

To think over; to plan.
He . . . is our witness, how we both day and night, revolving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor.

Excogitate

To cogitate.

Cogitate

Consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind

Excogitate

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort;
Excogitate a way to measure the speed of light

Cogitate

Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments;
I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere

Excogitate

Reflect deeply on a subject;
I mulled over the events of the afternoon
Philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate

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