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- noun Plural form of
excogitation .
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Examples
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There are excogitations to deploy new services through mobile phones that encourage people to read books.
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There are excogitations to deploy new services through mobile phones that encourage people to read books.
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See, queer excogitations in a secular context are SO much more fun
Still ain’t easy being queer at Gordon College | Mind on Fire 2008
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I will not flatter you with my own opinion of your excogitations.
Depression Sessions #2: Even more fun Ms Robinson 2007
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Herbart, who died in 1841, would probably have disdained and rejected his followers, who thus courted popularity and cheapened Metaphysic, putting a literal interpretation on his realities, his ideas and representations, and upon all his most lofty excogitations.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909
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In an evil hour were the doctrines of the Gospel sophisticated with questions which should have been left in the Schools for those who are unwise enough to employ themselves in excogitations of useless subtlety.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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But you shall have the preference in this as in all other things; therefore proceed, and let us know the effects of your meditation; and then I will impart my own simple excogitations.”
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Lovely thou art and therefore to be loved, and day and night thou and Love the sum of my excogitations art, wherefore I, with loving art, am hither come to woo thee, since, lady, I do love thee. "
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"To rob is sinful, to disturb the excogitations of philosophers is blasphemous.
Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915
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But you shall have the preference in this as in all other things; therefore proceed, and let us know the effects of your meditation; and then I will impart my own simple excogitations. "
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746
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