[agent-n. f. L. excōgitāre: see EXCOGITATE and -OR.] One who excogitates.
1776. trans. Beccaria’s Treat. Artificial Electricity, 47. The excogitator of it moreover confesses … that each of the fluids is attracted by all bodies around it.
1832. Franklin Telegraph, 26 June, 3/1. Such violent political productions never fail to produce consequences diametrically opposite to those calculated on by their excogitators.
1845. J. Henry, trans. Eneis, II. 196/74. And Ithacus, excogitator still Of villainies.
1847. Sir W. Hamilton, Lett. to A. De Morgan, 28. Your claim of being an original excogitator of the doctrine of syllogism.
