The writers who used these expressions did not mean that as reason is given by God, so whatever reason may excogitate is the word of God.
But they err who excogitate from it those severe dogmas which express only dreams of the imagination and wishes of the religious spirit.
It was long before little Isie got to sleep, what with attempting to realize the actual condition of Alec Forbes, and trying to excogitate the best means for his deliverance.
The Apostle only commanded that each action and ceremony of God’s worship be decently and orderly performed, but gives us no leave to excogitate or devise new ceremonies, which have not been instituted before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excogitate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
