The subtiltie of which, no humane excogitation is able to imitate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference

And it was admittedly not an excogitation of the Brahmanical mind itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

Nobody can come to the knowledge of an event by his own reflection, by excogitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible and preaching] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference

Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Dorrit] Reference

He had half a mind to remain at home to conquer them by excogitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference

The comic of Jonson is a scholar's excogitation of the comic; that of Massinger a moralist's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference

Let it also be noted that this longitude reward was not a premium upon excogitation of a mysterious difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference

Before the excogitation of this splendid resolve, he had been observed to wear for some period a conspiratorial aspect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference

After much excogitation, she had decided to leave the roses in her hair, but it had taken her ten minutes to summon up courage to go downstairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Californians] Reference

"Yes," agreed the young man, though with a lilt of dubiety, and a frown of excogitation, as if he weren't sure that he had quite caught her drift.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Friend Prospero] Reference

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!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philistia] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia] Reference

When we are alone we are not always busy; the labour of excogitation is too violent to last long; the ardour of enquiry will sometimes give way to idleness or satiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference

An old philosopher -- a Descartes, suppose -- fancied that out of primitive truths, which he could by ardent excogitation know, he might by pure deduction evolve the entire universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Constitution] Reference

'My advice, however, is, that you attempt, from time to time, an original sermon; and in the labour of composition, do not burthen your mind with too much at once; do not exact from yourself at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference

For some time after she was gone, Hesper was entirely occupied with the excogitation of certain harmonies of the toilet that must minister effect to the dress she had now so plainly before her mind's eye; but by and by the dress began to melt away, and like a dissolving view disappeared, leaving in its place the form of "that singular shop-girl.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Marston] Reference

You see, I perceived that, as my strength is considerable above the average, the baboons would be likely to overload me, so, arter profound excogitation wi 'myself, I made up my mind what to do, an' when they had clapped on a little more than the rest o 'you carried I began to groan, then I began to shake a bit in my timbers, an' look as if I was agoin 'to founder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan] Reference

Britannia "is enshrined, Thomson displays as keen and exact a sense of the lines of England's destiny as Seeley acquired by painful historic excogitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678] Reference

Gargantuan manner: "Do not exact from yourself, at one effort of excogitation, propriety of thought and elegance of expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference