Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to excogitate
Participle: excogitated
Gerund: excogitating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | excogitate |
| you | excogitate |
| he;she;it | excogitates |
| we | excogitate |
| you | excogitate |
| they | excogitate |
Perfect
| I | have excogitated |
| you | have excogitated |
| he;she;it | has excogitated |
| we | have excogitated |
| you | have excogitated |
| they | have excogitated |
Past
| I | excogitated |
| you | excogitated |
| he;she;it | excogitated |
| we | excogitated |
| you | excogitated |
| they | excogitated |
Pluperfect
| I | had excogitated |
| you | had excogitated |
| he;she;it | had excogitated |
| we | had excogitated |
| you | had excogitated |
| they | had excogitated |
Future
| I | will excogitate |
| you | will excogitate |
| he;she;it | will excogitate |
| we | will excogitate |
| you | will excogitate |
| they | will excogitate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have excogitated |
| you | will have excogitated |
| he;she;it | will have excogitated |
| we | will have excogitated |
| you | will have excogitated |
| they | will have excogitated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | excogitate |
| you | excogitate |
| he;she;it | excogitate |
| we | excogitate |
| you | excogitate |
| they | excogitate |
Perfect
| I | have excogitated |
| you | have excogitated |
| he;she;it | have excogitated |
| we | have excogitated |
| you | have excogitated |
| they | have excogitated |
Imperfect
| I | excogitated |
| you | excogitated |
| he;she;it | excogitated |
| we | excogitated |
| you | excogitated |
| they | excogitated |
Pluperfect
| I | had excogitated |
| you | had excogitated |
| he;she;it | had excogitated |
| we | had excogitated |
| you | had excogitated |
| they | had excogitated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would excogitate |
| you | would excogitate |
| he;she;it | would excogitate |
| we | would excogitate |
| you | would excogitate |
| they | would excogitate |
Perfect
| I | would have excogitated |
| you | would have excogitated |
| he;she;it | would have excogitated |
| we | would have excogitated |
| you | would have excogitated |
| they | would have excogitated |
Imperative
| you | excogitate |
| we | Let's excogitate |
| you | excogitate |
Verbs conjugated like 'excogitate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'excogitate'
cogitate,
exagitate,
excitate,
excoriate,
eccoriate,
excorticate,
exfoliate,
exorbitate,
exosstate,
expeditate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Latin excōgitāre, from ex- + cōgitāre (“think”).
Sample Sentences
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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. [a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC:]
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Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death. [2007, M. F. Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3]
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After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.
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This evidence […] thus excogitated out of the general theory. [1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:]