excogitation

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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!

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  1. A thinking out; the act of devising in the mind; contrivance. The labour of excogitation is too violent to last long. Johnson, Rasselas, xliii.

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  1. = French excogitation = Portuguese excogitação, from Latin excogitatio(n-), from excogitare, think out: see excogitate.
 

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