cognito
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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A small man arrived cognito in Rome recently.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hoc cognito, senior jam confidentius priori se jussit sede locari.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
Omnis cognitio est a potentia et objecto, sive a cognoscente et cognito.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
She thought she had been in most everything there was goin, but she'd never seen a cognito, which must be some Western contrivance or other.
From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Holmes, Mary Jane
Hence cognito ergo sum, which well-nigh all men really understand as cogito, ergo sum Deus.
From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Leland, Charles Godfrey
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