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cognize

[ kog-nahyz ]

/ ˈkɒg naɪz /

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verb (used with object), cog·nized, cog·niz·ing.

to perceive; become conscious of; know.

Also especially British, cog·nise.

Origin of cognize

First recorded in 1650–60; back formation from cognizance

OTHER WORDS FROM cognize

cog·niz·er, noun pre·cog·nize, verb (used with object), pre·cog·nized, pre·cog·niz·ing. un·cog·nized, adjective

Words nearby cognize

cognitive therapy, cognitivism, cognizable, cognizance, cognizant, cognize, cognomen, cognoscenti, cognoscible, cognoscitive, cognovit

Example sentences from the Web for cognize

It is in the recognition or non-recognition of these truths that there is manifested what we cognize as our freedom.

The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies |Lev N. Tolstoy
To think an object and to cognize an object are by no means the same thing.

The Critique of Pure Reason |Immanuel Kant
See'st thou, then, how all things in cognizing use rather their own faculty than the faculty of the things which they cognize?

The Consolation of Philosophy |Boethius
Sense-ideas which look upon the world as a world of independent objects, do not cognize the world truly.

Pedagogics as a System |Karl Rosenkranz

Cognition from principles, then, is that cognition in which I cognize the particular in the general by means of conceptions.

The Critique of Pure Reason |Immanuel Kant

British Dictionary definitions for cognize

cognize

cognise

/ (ˈkɒɡnaɪz, kɒɡˈnaɪz) /

verb

(tr) to perceive, become aware of, or know