Verb(1) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle(2) reflect deeply on a subject(3) come up with (an idea(4) plan(5) explanation(6) theory(7) or priciple) after a mental effort(8) think about seriously
Verb(1) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle(2) reflect deeply on a subject(3) come up with (an idea(4) plan(5) explanation(6) theory(7) or priciple) after a mental effort(8) think about seriously
(1) scholars straining to excogitate upon subjects of which they know little(2) Further, the idea that only Salieri, the mortal enemy, fully appreciated Mozart's genius - albeit clandestinely and self-tormentingly - also feels excogitated and incredible.(3) We get instead more or less cleverly excogitated , linguistically acrobatic flippancy, along with characters who bypass the heart and end up not mattering.(4) 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.(5) 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.(6) He also owes debts to the cultural anthropology of Clifford Geertz and to the theory of scientific revolutions excogitated by Thomas Kuhn.(7) In Twelfth Night or What You Will, the subtitle, I assume, refers to what an audience desires, not to what a director excogitates .(8) For this is the cleverness not of cognition, but of excogitation threaded on a string of episodes a bit too thick for credence.(9) 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.(10) This is largely Jewish family comedy with everyone in everyone else's hair, though most of the contentiousness seems laboriously excogitated .
