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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