excoctiont (ekskokshon)

[ L.excoctio ( n- ), a boiling or baking thoroughly, In the excoctions and depurations of metals it is a familiar error, that to advance excoction they augment the heat of the furnace or the quantity of the injection. Bacon , Learning, v. 2. excodicationt (eks-kod-i-kā'shon), n. [ excodicatio ( n- ), excaudicatio (n-), excodicare , excaudicare , ex , out, + codex, caudex , stem, trunk.] Removal of the earth from the root of a vine. Atte Jannerie ablaqueacion The vynes axe [ask] in places tempo rate; It aliens excodicacion Hitt calle. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), 1. 44. excogitate (eks-koj'i-tāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. excogitated , ppr. excogitating . [ L.excogitatus , pp. of excogitare (> It. escogitare = Sp. Pg. ex cogitar =OF. excogiter ), think out, contrive, devise, ex , out, + cog it are , think: see cogitate .] To think out; contrive; devise. They have also wittily excogitated and devised instru ments of divers fashions. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 7. In his incomparable warres and busynes almost incredible, he [Cæsar] dydde excogitate most excellent pollycies and deuyses, to vanquish or subdewe his ennemyes. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, i. 23. He must first think, and excogitate his matter, then choose his words. B. Jonson, Discoveries. Did at last excogitate How he might keep the good and leave the bad. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 121. excogitation (eks-koj-i-ta's hon), n. [= F. excogitation = Pg. excogitação , excogita tio (n-), excogitare , think out: see excogitate .] A thinking out; the act of devising in the mind; contrivance. The labour of excogitation is too violent to last long. Johnson, Ra elas, xliii. ex commodo (eks kom'ō-dō). [L.] Leisurely. excommunet (eks-ko-mūn'), v. t. [ Poets indeed were excommuned Plato's commonwealth. Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 21. IMG:content-0868.png:[blocks in formation]