excogitates

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 Benedetto Croce 1909

Valmont even when he excogitates and puts in practice that very ingenious and picturesque idea of a writing-desk, or when he seeks the consolations and fortifications of the Church after Danceny has done on him the first part of the judgment of God.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889