cognito
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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A small man arrived cognito in Rome recently.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
But if he insists on your helping to keep up his cognito there's something in the wind.
From A Start in Life by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
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