Ex‐cog″i‐tate (?) v. t. [imp. & p. p.Excogitated (#); p. pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating.] [L. excogitatus, p. p. of excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See Cogitate.] 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.