excogitate \eks-KOJ-i-teyt, verb:

1. To think out; devise; invent.
2. To study intently and carefully in order to grasp or comprehend fully.

But observe the singular phenomenon — on approximately the same date several thousand men and women of letters retire to secluded corners to excogitate a thing described as “charm”; each cudgeling his or her head for some variety which can possibly be regarded as original…
— Upton Sinclair, Money Writes!

I preferred to relate aloud, to excogitate in a lively, external manner, with a flow of invention as useless as was my declamation of it, a whole novel crammed with adventure, in which the Duchess, fallen upon misfortune…
— Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

Excogitate is related to the word cogitate which means “to think.” The prefix ex- typically means “out of”, but in this case it means “thoroughly.”

mammonism \MAM-uh-niz-uhm, noun:

The greedy pursuit of riches.

We will bring to mind a young man or young woman bitterly awakened from a fancy dream of accomplishment, action or glory, forced instead to come to terms with a considerably reduced status, a betrayed love, and a hideously bourgeois world of crass mammonismand philistine taste.
— Rudyard Kipling, Kim

 \DOO-sid-lee, adverb:

Devilishly; damnably.

When I went in I had seen that there was a deucedly pretty girl sitting in that particular seat, so I had taken the next one.
— P. G. Wodehouse, Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories

It’s most important. You will put me in a deucedly awkward position if you don’t.
— C. S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

Deucedly is related to the word deuce which refers to the face of a die with one dot, as in “to roll deuces.” It comes from the Latin word for two, duos. In the mid-1600s, it became associated with bad luck, probably because it was the lowest score you could get when playing dice.

 \PAN-suh-fee, noun:

Universal wisdom or knowledge.

For just at the moment Baconfield had come to perceive the divine formulae that dictate, in darkness, the world’s apparent randomness, just when the thumbmarks on his walls comprised an exhilarating pansophy and he stood poised on the verge of omniscience, an uncircumscribable chaos has swept into his life.
— Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet

Wade had somehow managed to fuse the lightning-bolt pansophy of our visionary past with a single-minded perspicacity befitting the finest of the experimental methods…
— Konrad Ventana, A Desperado’s Daily Bread

From the Greek, pansophy is comprised of the root words pan meaning “all” and sophy meaning “wisdom.”

A state of mind consisting of pure sensation or emotion without cognitive content.

Normally, on my long-distance walks, anoesis descends within a few miles: the mental tape loop of infuriating resentments, or inane pop lyrics, or nonce phrases gives way to the greeny-beige noise of the outdoors.
— Will Self, Psychogeography

quondam |ˈkwändəm; -ˌdam|

adj [ attrib. ] formal
that once was; former : quondam dissidents joined the establishment | its quondam popularity.

profligate |ˈpräfligət; -ləˌgāt|
adjective
recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources : profligate consumers of energy.
• licentious; dissolute : he succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle.

entelechy \en-TEL-uh-kee, noun:

1. A realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
2. In vitalist philosophy, a vital agent or force directing growth and life.

It must gratify a man to evolve so perfectly concomitantly with his years, to write patriarchally when he is old, to be so complete an entelechy .
— Kenneth Burke, Here & Elsewhere: The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Burke

The vast realm of natural entelechy is virtually unknowable, but we already have on the books more information than any poet can use.
— Herbert A. Leibowitz, Parnassus: Twenty Years of Poetry In Review

overslaugh \OH-ver-slaw, verb:

To pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.

I have asked his attention to the fact that he himself was one of the most active instruments at one time in breaking down the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, because it had made a decision distasteful to him-a struggle ending in the remarkable circumstance of his sitting down as one of the new Judges who were to overslaugh that decision-getting his title of Judge in that very way.
— Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Douglas Debates