| 单词 | excogitate |
| 例句 | It is always peculiarly fascinating, therefore, to subject to direct verification by observation, that is, to render palpable to the senses, something which we have only theoretically excogitated or theoretically surmised. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Did ever a human being excogitate such blasphemous nonsense? Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England 2012-03-14T02:00:28.613Z Nature in a mirror is just nature, not nature thought out, excogitated, turned to human uses, interpreted in human words. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z By the time that I had excogitated all this, my feet had visited many square yards of palace, comprising bed-room, banqueting-room, chief lady's room, chapel, and so on. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z This is the most perfect form of absolutism ever yet excogitated in any man's brains. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z It is strange that any two ministers could have excogitated so monstrous a proposition, and that both should be called "Divine." Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z When the idea is accepted odd devices are excogitated by the active little brain for making it intelligible. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z But for codex b, it would never have been excogitated. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z Or perhaps you have excogitated some theories of your own? The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z His defenders have here excogitated a most ingenious plea. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z "Shall I to him"—Sister Margaret paused to excogitate the Yiddish word—"write?" Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Here the little thinker is not often left to excogitate a theory for himself. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z Hence, too, it is that we hunt through the mental train, excogitating from the present or some other, and from similar or contrary or coadjacent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The following series of possibilities are curiously interesting, both from their partial subsequent realization, and from the simple credulity with which Bacon gives us that which he had known "a wise man explicitly excogitate." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 It is a marvellous thing that they who engage in excogitating this kind of double-meaning literature about bimetallism, should suppose that the people can any longer be deluded with it. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 He set about excogitating an alphabet; but actually forgot to give names to his letters, which afterwards baffled him before literary men. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 I knew at once that she had excogitated it, and kept it in reserve for a good opportunity of impressing upon my mind what my money was. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 A dozen forms exceedingly different might be excogitated, which, provided that they all agreed in being strange to a Roman, would, when moulded into a Latin form, become alike. The Ethnology of the British Islands The penalties excogitated in past centuries were varied: flogging, hard labour, imprisonment, and exile. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso However, theologians have excogitated a hypothetical case in which an action may be physically free without being meritorious. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise Could not I have excogitated this Without believing such men really were? Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning An execrable Triumvirate—a scandalum magnatum to all public bodies: I suppose they and their adherents are now sitting in Pandemonium, excogitating their diabolical machinations against us. The Politician Out-Witted He codifies the catch questions of previous university preliminaries, excogitates similar weird lists of anomalies and exceptions, and doses the pupils on such stuff instead of really teaching the important parts of his subject. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland He seems incapable of excogitating a single plot of treachery, or of carrying into execution a single deed of violence. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Here, for a week or a fortnight, the candidates sat and excogitated, unable to lie down at night, sleeping, if they could, in their chairs. Appearances Being Notes of Travel No other author would have taken the trouble to excogitate him, and then treat him so badly. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study 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 Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) If, then, there were several systems excogitated, equally satisfying to our purely logical needs, they would still have to be passed in review, and approved or rejected by our aesthetic and practical nature. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The black on the paper is what man has excogitated—excogitated.” The Adventures of Maya the Bee At Calvary poets have sung their sweetest strains, and artists seen their sublimest visions, and thinkers excogitated their noblest ideas. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion Bein’ hot I lay down in the lee of a bush to excogitate. Black Ivory But they err who excogitate from it those severe dogmas which express only dreams of the imagination and wishes of the religious spirit. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology He must have plans: those he would carry out remorselessly.—So he went away to excogitate further revenge. Alec Forbes of Howglen Whoever it was, he must have excogitated the idea at a distance, and in some splenetic humour; it never could have entered through his eyesight standing here. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Yet even Varchi shares the prevailing conviction that the proper method is first to excogitate a perfect political system, and then to impress that like a stamp upon the material of the commonwealth. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots It was during this period that, with no other books than the Bible and Fox's Book of Martyrs, he excogitated his allegory. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction 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. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology This methodical or theoretical Cartesian doubt, this philosophical doubt excogitated in a stove, is not the doubt, is not the scepticism, is not the incertitude, that I am talking about here. Tragic Sense Of Life He rubbed the warm pipe bowl against his cheek and excogitated the matter in deep humility. Septimus And he had four days a week in which to excogitate new methods of creating a fortune. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns His Majesty, unwilling to proceed to extremities, and well aware that such measures sooner or later result in violent reactions, has excogitated a more fundamental and comprehensive measure, of which I need say no more. The Princess and the Goblin The philosophies excogitated by the insulated intellect help nothing toward even a glimpse of these secrets. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry In fact, it must require a considerable effort to excogitate novel labor-saving devices. By Water to the Columbian Exposition But the details had not been very fully excogitated, and his foremost thought, after all, was simply to popularize the Thalia, which was largely caviare to the general. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Pending her appearance, he filled the spirit-stove, put the kettle on to boil, and lighting a cigarette, sat himself down to watch the pot and excogitate his several problems. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama One morning he went out for a walk beyond the town limits to excogitate the final touches for some sentences that were to annihilate the infidel Frenchman. Casanova's Homecoming For this very reason, the vigilant will excogitates expedients, which help memory in its weakness, and are its aids. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic All the conveniences that modern ingenuity has excogitated—in accordance with the requirements of the present era—have been introduced into this huge structure. By Water to the Columbian Exposition But your modern lounger at the clubs, what variety of liquors are excogitated to please his palate! Moral Philosophy Deep truths may be perceived, but can never be excogitated—that is to say, the first knowledge of them is immediate, called forth by some momentary impression. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims He meditated there in a condition of insanity for perhaps a minute, and excogitated a device. The Old Wives' Tale In a fourth a system of idealistic metaphysics is being excogitated; in a fifth the impossibility of metaphysics is being shown. Pragmatism I lit another cigarette and excogitated the problem. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Yet cause must be assigned, and the best form of words he could excogitate ran thus: 'Family circumstances render it desirable—almost necessary—that I should spend the next twelve months in London. Born in Exile I wouldn't put the question to you for the world, and expose you to the inconvenience of having to—a— excogitate an answer. Washington Square And to speak generally, in regard of things celestial he set his face against attempts to excogitate the machinery by which the divine power formed its several operations. The Memorabilia |
| 随便看 |
|
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。