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cognize
[ kog-nahyz ]
verb (used with object)
- to perceive; become conscious of; know.
cognize
/ kɒɡˈnaɪz; ˈkɒɡnaɪz /
verb
- tr to perceive, become aware of, or know
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Other Words From
- cogniz·er noun
- pre·cognize verb (used with object) precognized precognizing
- un·cognized adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cognize1
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Example Sentences
Take away matter, and mortal mind could not cognize its own so-called substance, and this so-called mind would have no identity.
We can only cognize the ever-succeeding phenomena of existence as a line in continuous and eternal evolution.
Man is more than physical personality, or what we cognize through the material senses.
We should not seek to perceive an object otherwise than by the faculty that is suitable to cognize it.
See'st thou, then, how all things in cognizing use rather their own faculty than the faculty of the things which they cognize?
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