cognize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- cognizer noun
- precognize verb (used with object)
- uncognized adjective
Etymology
Origin of cognize
First recorded in 1650–60; back formation from cognizance
Example Sentences
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Yet we cognize him, but this is by an immediate intuition, in which we know him as he is in himself.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.
The Absolute includes the idea of necessity, which the mind cannot cognize.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
To things as things in themselves, conformability to law must necessarily belong independently of an understanding to cognize them.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
As the speed of the blows increases, further qualitative differences arise; the musical tone rises in pitch until it becomes too acute for the ear to cognize, and thus vanishes from consciousness.
From Through Nature to God by Fiske, John
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 James, H. R. (Henry Rosher)
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