Crossword-Solution: EXCOGITATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Excogitation | n. | The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “EXCOGITATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it | 1 answer |
| Examination | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with EXCOGITATION (5)
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.
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.
After about half an hour's excogitation, a brilliant idea at last flashed across him; he had found in a tobacconist's window something to write about! Your practised journalist doesn't need to think at all; he writes whatever comes uppermost without the unnecessarily troublesome preliminary of deliberate thinking.
The principles of analysis which he was charged with having borrowed without acknowledgment from Schlegel, with whose Shakespearian theories he was at the time entirely unacquainted, were in fact of his own excogitation.
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.