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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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 William James
Still, you could not cognize in concreto the object of your ideas in any experience.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
By some instinct, it is able to cognize a dying apple.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
The things we do not see or cognize with the physical senses are called mental, or spiritual.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
Being is God, infinite Spirit; therefore it cannot cognize aught material, or outside of infinity.
From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy
It can only occur between a false representation of a being and the true idea of the being when actually cognized.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
This feeling is cognized by the intellectual faculty, and of this the person is conscious.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
Whenever a material object is cognized, there is a direct effect of matter upon the mind.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
The question now arises, how is self cognized?
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
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
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
The novice does not know his natural power, his birthright, and must be helped to find it, chiefly, however, by helping himself, by cognizing and re-cognizing it.
From Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Thomas Fillebrown
He had approached things in the full confidence that the human mind was capable of cognizing them, and with a naïve trust in the power of reason to possess itself of the truth.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
This contact must then be of some kind of atom which resides in the body ensouled by the cognizing soul.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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