cognize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Origin of cognize
First recorded in 1650–60; back formation from cognizance
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An evil material mind, so-called, can conceive of God only as like itself, and knowing both evil and good; but a purely good and spiritual consciousness has no sense whereby to cognize evil.
From Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy
Being is God, infinite Spirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, or outside of infinity.
From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy
Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the material senses.
From No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy
Everywhere that things exist, they may be paralleled by Intelligences that cognize them.
From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by B. H. Roberts
Consequently he never had occasion to inquire whether anything whatsoever was possible which his senses or the senses of other witnesses seemed to cognize.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
So consciousness is not a limitation, though all limits when cognized are seen in the light of consciousness.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
For, in this case, it is quite foreign and unessential to the nature of things, and cannot be cognized from the general laws of nature.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Or why does it not throw off its shackles and look directly at the object to be cognized, instead of submitting to dependence upon so frail a thing as fleshly eyes and nerves?
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
It may, however, be pointed out that in so far as an object is cognized by the mind, it becomes in a sense part of the complex self-content.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
At the same time, it must be carefully borne in mind that, while we surrender the power of cognizing, we still reserve the power of thinking objects, as things in themselves.*
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
See'st thou, then, how all things in cognizing use rather their own faculty than the faculty of the things which they cognize?
From The Consolation of Philosophy by H. R. (Henry Rosher) James
From this we perceive the possibility of cognizing a priori a law of changes—a law, however, which concerns their form merely.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Man has no faculty for cognizing substances, causes, forces, reasons, first principles--no power by which he can know God.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Incapable of cognizing both time and eternity, it makes them absolute negations of each other.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
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