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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The external and the internal ear, like the ear-trumpet, are purely material, and by means of them we are able to cognize those material emanations called sound.
From Beyond by Henry Seward Hubbard
As if conception could possibly occur except for a teleological purpose, except to show us the way from a state of things our senses cognize to another state of things our will desires!
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
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
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 things we do not see or cognize with the physical senses are called mental, or spiritual.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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
I cognized the center of the empyrean as a point of intuitive perception in my heart.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
By mode, I understand each cognized condition or accident of existence.
From A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays by Charles Bradlaugh
"Even space and time, though cognized solely by negative characteristics, are determined in so far as differentiated from the existences they contain; but this differentiation involves no limitation of their infinity."
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
Thus the conception of body indicates something—for example, metal—which can be cognized by means of that conception.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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
At the same time, it must be carefully borne in mind that, while we surrender the power of cognizing, we still reserve the power of thinking objects, as things in themselves.*
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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
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
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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