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cognize, -ise, v.|kɒgˈnaɪz|
[A comparatively modern word, formed with reference to cognizance, cognizor, and the kindred words, and the earlier recognize. It thus corresponds analogically, but not phonetically, to L. cognōscere, OF. conoistre, F. connaître: cf. cognosce. The prevalence of the ending -ize over -ise is app. due to the influence of the large class of verbs having etymological -ize.]
†1. Law. (intr. or absol.) To take cognizance.
1658–9Chaloner in Burton's Diary (1828) III. 129 The Judges..sit at Westminster, and they cognize.
2. trans. To take cognizance of, take note of, notice, observe.
1821Joseph the Book-Man 107 [He] was cogniz'd by every eye. 1889J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 72 Moved to incipient hysteria where anon I should simply cognize pathos.
3. Philos. To know, perceive, become conscious of; to make (anything) an object of cognition.
1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxi. (1877) II. 19 It would also be convenient..for psychological precision and emphasis, to use the word to cognise in connection with its noun cognition. Ibid. xxxvi. (1870) II. 329 They first know,—they first cognise, the things and persons presented to them. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. i. iv. (1875) 80 It is a material object, and it is cognized by being recognized as such. 1876Mivart Lessons fr. Nat. vii. 196 We cognize an object..by one act; we cognize that cognition by a very different act.
Hence cogˈnizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 101 The soul's cognizing consists in this, that itself..apprehends an object through the eye and the other media enumerated. 1878N. Amer. Rev. 31 Take away the cognizing mind, and the color, form, position, [etc.] of the table..at once disappear. |