cognito
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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A small man arrived cognito in Rome recently.
From Time Magazine Archive
The veracity of the following passage of Tacitus is therefore fully confirmed:—'Deligitque locum artis faucibus, et a tergo sylva clausum; satis cognito, nihil hostium, nisi in fronte, et apertam planitiem esse, sine metu insidiarum.'
From Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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
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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