different between contrive vs excogitate

English

Etymology

From Middle English contreve (“to invent”), from Old French controver (Modern French controuver), from trover (“to find”) (French trouver).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?t?a?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Verb

contrive (third-person singular simple present contrives, present participle contriving, simple past and past participle contrived)

1. To invent by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise

   Synonyms: plan, scheme, plot, hatch

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 154

     […] I cannot bear the idea of two young women traveling post by themselves. It is highly improper. You must contrive to send somebody.

2. To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.
3. To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To spend (time, or a period).

Synonyms

• becast
• cast about

Derived terms

• contrived
• contriver
• contrivance

Translations

Anagrams

• renovict

English

Etymology

From Latin exc?git?re, from ex- + c?git?re (“think”).

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.

   • 2007, M. F. Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3

     Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death.

2. To reach as a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

   After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.

   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     This evidence […] thus excogitated out of the general theory.

Translations

Latin

Verb

exc?git?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exc?git?