cognize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of cognize
First recorded in 1650–60; back formation from cognizance
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We can only cognize the ever-succeeding phenomena of existence as a line in continuous and eternal evolution.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
The assize had no more to cognize upon, but his own confession, yet brought him in guilty.
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
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 Charles Bradlaugh
Everywhere that things exist, they may be paralleled by Intelligences that cognize them.
From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by B. H. Roberts
The philosophic endeavour to cognize the whole system of things by referring all events to their causes appears to him to be from the outset doomed to failure.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
The fundamental problem is whether a thing which is by hypothesis infinite can in any sense be defined, and if it is not defined, whether it can be said to be cognized or thought.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Or why does it not throw off its shackles and look directly at the object to be cognized, instead of submitting to dependence upon so frail a thing as fleshly eyes and nerves?
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
But we cannot say so in regard to these two things in question, for Brahman alone is that which cannot be cognized.
From The Tattva-Muktavali by Purnananda Chakravartin
It is important to notice that Hume, in regard to this problem, distinctly separates Mathematics. geometry from algebra and arithmetic, i.e. he views extensive quantity as being cognized differently from number.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various
The second is the relations of phenomena, cognized by the reason alone.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Its heaven, Nirvana, is indeed the world of infinite bliss; but, incapable of cognizing the infinite, it calls it nothing.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
Not that the nature of the Understanding by any two senses or faculties is ever the same; but that each has its own method of cognizing the same general field of investigation.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
But how is the unextended soul capable of cognizing extended body?
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
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
Man has no faculty for cognizing substances, causes, forces, reasons, first principles--no power by which he can know God.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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