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cognito

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[kawg-nee-toh, kawg-ni-toh] / kɔgˈni toʊ, ˈkɔg nɪˌtoʊ /

adjective

  1. known; recognized.


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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 Charles Godfrey Leland

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 Mary Jane Holmes

But if he insists on your helping to keep up his cognito there's something in the wind.

From A Start in Life by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

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