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Definition of excogitate in English: excogitateverb ɪksˈkɒdʒɪteɪtɛksˈkɒdʒɪteɪtɛksˈkɑdʒəˌteɪt [with object]formal Think out, plan, or devise. 〈正式〉想出；设计；发明 all the rubrics, forms, and functions remained to be excogitated 所有的标题、 格式和功能仍有待设计。 Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- 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.
- Further, the idea that only Salieri, the mortal enemy, fully appreciated Mozart's genius - albeit clandestinely and self-tormentingly - also feels excogitated and incredible.
- 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.
- He also owes debts to the cultural anthropology of Clifford Geertz and to the theory of scientific revolutions excogitated by Thomas Kuhn.
- We get instead more or less cleverly excogitated, linguistically acrobatic flippancy, along with characters who bypass the heart and end up not mattering.
- In Twelfth Night or What You Will, the subtitle, I assume, refers to what an audience desires, not to what a director excogitates.
- This is largely Jewish family comedy with everyone in everyone else's hair, though most of the contentiousness seems laboriously excogitated.
Synonyms organize, arrange, work out, think out, design, line up, outline, sketch out, map out, chalk out, draft, prepare, schedule, programme, formulate, frame, project, develop, set up, fix up, shape, build, devise, concoct, contrive
OriginEarly 16th century: from Latin excogitat- 'found by process of thought', from the verb excogitare, from ex- 'out' + cogitare 'think'. Definition of excogitate in US English: excogitateverbɛksˈkɑdʒəˌteɪteksˈkäjəˌtāt [with object]formal Think out, plan, or devise. 〈正式〉想出；设计；发明 scholars straining to excogitate upon subjects of which they know little Example sentencesExamples - This is largely Jewish family comedy with everyone in everyone else's hair, though most of the contentiousness seems laboriously excogitated.
- In Twelfth Night or What You Will, the subtitle, I assume, refers to what an audience desires, not to what a director excogitates.
- He also owes debts to the cultural anthropology of Clifford Geertz and to the theory of scientific revolutions excogitated by Thomas Kuhn.
- We get instead more or less cleverly excogitated, linguistically acrobatic flippancy, along with characters who bypass the heart and end up not mattering.
- 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.
- Further, the idea that only Salieri, the mortal enemy, fully appreciated Mozart's genius - albeit clandestinely and self-tormentingly - also feels excogitated and incredible.
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms organize, arrange, work out, think out, design, line up, outline, sketch out, map out, chalk out, draft, prepare, schedule, programme, formulate, frame, project, develop, set up, fix up, shape, build, devise, concoct, contrive
OriginEarly 16th century: from Latin excogitat- ‘found by process of thought’, from the verb excogitare, from ex- ‘out’ + cogitare ‘think’. |