ppl. a. [f. prec. verb + -ED1.] Thought out, contrived, devised.

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a. 1619.  Fotherby, Atheom., I. vii. § 3 (1622), 53. An excogitated and composed tale, to deceiue the world.

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1814.  Chalmers, Evid. Chr. Revel., x. 267. An assumed or excogitated principle of our own.

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1869.  J. Martineau, Ess., II. 177. An excogitated system arising by the evolution of pure thought.

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