transitive verb
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Synonyms
concoct, construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)
circa 1530, in the meaning defined above
Latin excogitatus, past participle of excogitare, from ex- + cogitare to cogitate
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