cognize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of cognize
First recorded in 1650–60; back formation from cognizance
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By attribute, I understand that by which I cognize any mode of existence.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
It is not merely through my thinking that I cognize an object, but only through my determining a given intuition in relation to the unity of consciousness in which all thinking consists.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
It has schemes, forms, and objects proportionate to its wider field, which our mental fields are far too narrow to cognize.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William
And yet it may be that running parallel with those existences, substances and relations unknown to man, there exist intelligences that cognize such existences and relations.
From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by Roberts, B. H.
But I cannot for this reason say that I cognize this property of a straight line from principles—I cognize it only in pure intuition.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
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