Word Meanings - EXCOGITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

Related words: (words related to EXCOGITATION)

• DEVISABLE
  1. Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. 2. Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will.
• DEVISAL
  A devising. Whitney.
• DEVISER
  One who devises.
• EXCOGITATION
  The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
• DEVISE
  To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. Syn. -- To bequeath; invent; discover; contrive; excogitate; imagine; plan; scheme. See Bequeath. (more info) chat, fr. L. divisus divided, distributed, p. p. of dividere. See
• INVENTION
  The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross , a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding
• EXCOGITATE
  To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.
• DEVISEE
  One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
• DEVISOR
  One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.
• CONTRIVANCE
  1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented,
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• SELF-DEVISED
  Devised by one's self.