How To Use Excogitate In A Sentence

  • But it was impossible to say whether these excogitated phantasms should be played thus or otherwise, and whether the ultimate meaning was how things change or how they don't.
  • It is here contended, on the other hand, that no conservation of any such variations could ever have given rise to the faintest beginning of any such moral perceptions; that by "Natural Selection" alone the maxim _fiat justitia, ruat coelum_ could never have been excogitated, still less have found a widespread acceptance; that it is impotent to suggest even an approach towards an explanation of the _first beginning_ of the idea of On the Genesis of Species
  • In fact, it must require a considerable effort to excogitate novel labor-saving devices. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
  • Twice or thrice he rose from his chair, paced the room with a determined brow, and sat down again with vigorous clutch of the pen; still he failed to excogitate a single sentence that would serve his purpose. New Grub Street
  • John Forrest Dillon, a man of high intelligence, explained, in the preface to the fourth edition of his treatise on local government: No writer on our jurisprudence is authorized to speak oracularly, to excogitate a system, or to give to his views any authoritative sanction. A History of American Law
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  • Not here, pray, I beseech you; but, if I must, suffer me to excogitate these very things on the ground. Clouds
  • I suppose I should have simply agreed with Ted's 5 points, moved on and not chosen TN as the forum to excogitate on what appears to be a success for Blizzard. The Golden 1M: Please Welcome the Next Candidate, World of Warcraft
  • We get instead more or less cleverly excogitated, linguistically acrobatic flippancy, along with characters who bypass the heart and end up not mattering.
  • On the other hand, while philosophers have not ceased their effort to excogitate what matter must be and cosmologies have still been produced, more interestingly perhaps, because cosmology has not been the center of philo - sophical interest, theories of matter have been derived from, or even only implied by, disciplines that were — epistemology, semantics, theories of action. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • The accursed book of the Recreation of Dice was a great while ago excogitated in Achaia, near Bourre, by that ancient enemy of mankind, the infernal calumniator, who, before the statue or massive image of the Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Nicholas Martin, the director, apparently wanted to make the play more palatable by emphasizing its comic aspects, both those written by Ibsen and those, more numerous, excogitated by Martin.
  • More often Arthur tells jokes - set pieces that, though funny, are either old hat or burdened with so much excogitated emphasis as to, rather than prance like Lippizaners, plod like Percherons.
  • The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
  • Based on the principle of full flow extinction, this paper excogitated a pocketable opacity smoke meter.
  • It's no criticism of your work product, and no one can excogitate the perfect bill. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001
  • Most of the contentiousness seems laboriously excogitated.
  • All the conveniences that modern ingenuity has excogitated -- in accordance with the requirements of the present era -- have been introduced into this huge structure. By Water to the Columbian Exposition
  • _Mechanicks_, that I have hitherto propounded to my self, but by a certain method (which I may on some other opportunity explain) I have been able presently to examine the possibility of it; and if so, as easily to excogitate divers wayes of performing it: And indeed it is possible to do as much by _this method_ in _Mechanicks_, as by _Algebra_ can be perform'd in _Geometry_. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
  • Thus a single category may include many things, and we cannot discover them except through their signs displayed corporeally and by the things being excogitated by the mind. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
  • Objective To excogitate Alisma orientate(Sam. ) Juzep. flower bolt Cultivating and standardization cultivating technology of field planting management.
  • Further, the idea that only Salieri, the mortal enemy, fully appreciated Mozart's genius - albeit clandestinely and self-tormentingly - also feels excogitated and incredible.
  • It has a carefully excogitated circular structure, whereby its beginning manages to bite its tail, its way of getting there is haphazard and halting, its often windy dialogue a poor antimacassar for its spindly furnishings.
  • excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
  • At the heart of the social vision prevalent among contemporary intellectuals is the belief that there are "problems" created by existing institutions and that "solutions" to these problems can be excogitated by intellectuals. Notable & Quotable
  • In Twelfth Night or What You Will, the subtitle, I assume, refers to what an audience desires, not to what a director excogitates.
  • Those, therefore, who have excogitated [the theory of] emissions have not discovered anything great, or revealed any abstruse mystery, when they have simply transferred what all understand to the only-begotten Word of God; and while they style Him unspeakable and unnameable, they nevertheless set forth the production and formation of ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • Whoever it was, he must have excogitated the idea at a distance, and in some splenetic humour; it never could have entered through his eyesight standing here. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
  • It is said that at an early age he disliked the Logic of Aristotle, and began to excogitate his system of English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
  • He also owes debts to the cultural anthropology of Clifford Geertz and to the theory of scientific revolutions excogitated by Thomas Kuhn.
  • The terrible Torquemada dwelt for years in Valladolid and must there have excogitated some of the methods of the Holy Office in dealing with heresy. Familiar Spanish Travels
  • And because they doubted, that the Volscians would not easely be perswaded thereunto, beinge so oft vanquished and ill intreated, they excogitated some other newe occasion. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1

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