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n. - The creation of something in the mind; Thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it.

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  • The subtiltie of which, no humane excogitation is able to imitate.
  • And it was admittedly not an excogitation of the Brahmanical mind itself.
  • Nobody can come to the knowledge of an event by his own reflection, by 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.
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