excogitation

How To Use excogitation In A Sentence

• With a diagram of these printed on the brain he had full command of the phrases which his excogitation had attached to them, and which embodied the ideas in perfect form. My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
• Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving Little Dorrit
• Yes," agreed the young man, though with a lilt of dubiety, and a frown of excogitation, as if he weren't sure that he had quite caught her drift. My Friend Prospero
• 'My advice, however, is, that you attempt, from time to time, an original sermon; and in the labour of composition, do not burthen your mind with too much at once; do not exact from yourself at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression. Life of Johnson
• Nobody can come to the knowledge of an event by his own reflection, by excogitation. Archive 2006-10-01
• And it was admittedly not an excogitation of the Brahmanical mind itself. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
• When we are alone, we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of inquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety. A History of English Prose Fiction
• The subtiltie of which, no humane excogitation is able to imitate. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
• After much excogitation, she had decided to leave the roses in her hair, but it had taken her ten minutes to summon up courage to go downstairs. The Californians