EXCOGITOUS ADJ. inventive ...1646 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Latin excōgitāre (to think out, to devise, to invent) + -ous; after medieval Latin cōgitōsus FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1646 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Impatience is very excogitous: a man had need have more naturall strength then ten men, or else he will fall into a consumption, the soule is so uncessantly hammering it selfe, and other folks, about its owne devices and divine events..." From: A Sermons Preached before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament: at their late solemn fast, Octob. 28. 1646. in Margarets Westminster - Nicholas Lockyer
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