Where is Sir Thomas Urquhart, quaintest of cavaliers, and not least admirable of translators, who not only rendered Rabelais in a style worthy of him, who not only wrote in sober seriousness pamphlets with titles, which Master Francis could hardly have bettered in jest, but who composed a pedigree of the Urquhart family nominatim up to Noah and Adam, and then improvised chimney pieces in Cromarty Castle, commemorating the prehistoric ancestors whom he had Excogitated?
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
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"
Johanna S. Wisthaler
For he had Excogitated complicated doctrines and he imparted them without the aid of notes and though his natural wit enabled him to adapt his words to the capacity of his hearers and to meet argument, still his wish was to formulate a consistent statement of his thoughts.
"Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) An Historical Sketch"
Charles Eliot