Definition of "excogitates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excogitate. (verb)

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• "For this very reason, the vigilant will excogitates expedients, which help memory in its weakness, and are its _aids_."
• "Valmont even when he excogitates and puts in practice that very ingenious and picturesque idea of a writing-desk, or when he seeks the consolations and fortifications of the Church after Danceny has done on him the first part of the judgment of God."