different between excogitate vs excogitation

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?

English

Etymology

From Latin excogitatio.

Noun

excogitation (countable and uncountable, plural excogitations)

1. Careful thought or consideration.
   • c. 1672, William Petty - Political Arithmetick, p. 21.

     […] the subtile excogitations of the Hollanders […]

   • 186?, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

     To the excogitation of this problem, this harmless gentleman had devoted many anxious hours […]

Related terms

• excogitate

French

Etymology

From Latin excogitatio

Pronunciation

Noun

excogitation f (plural excogitations)

1. excogitation

Related terms

• excogiter