escogitare — meaning in English

English meaning

• contrive verb To plan or invent something using skill and cleverness.
• devise verb To work out or invent a plan, method, or system through careful thought.
• speculate verb To guess or form a theory about something without having solid proof.

Senses

escogitare is used for these senses in English:

• come up with (idiomatic) To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it.
• devise (transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
• speculate (obsolete, intransitive) To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.

contrive — full definition

1. verb To plan or invent something using skill and cleverness.
2. verb To make something up as you go, often working out the details through improvisation.
3. verb (dated) To throw out or cast, as light is thrown from its source.
4. verb (dated) To pass or spend a period of time.

devise — full definition

1. verb To work out or invent a plan, method, or system through careful thought.
2. verb To leave real estate to someone in a will.

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