cognoscitiveadj.
/kɒɡˈnɒsɪtɪv/ A non-etymological formation for cognitive adj.; used sometimes, more especially, with an inchoative sense: apprehensive.
ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [adjective]
apprehensivea1398
cognitive1586
cognoscitive1640
cognoscent1649
cognitional1827
perceptional1862
cognition1878
perceptual1878
phronetal1904
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > [adjective]
cognitive1586
cognoscitive1640
cognitional1827
1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxiii. 404 All bodily cognoscitive faculties.
a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. i. 134 The Soul having an Innate Cognoscitive Power.
1830 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 28 880 A wise man, cognoscitive and sensitive of the blessings of this life.
1871 W. G. Ward Ess. (1884) I. 28 It would be ‘contrary to all analogy’ if man's cognoscitive faculties did not..receive..‘development and education’.
Derivatives
cogˈnoscitively adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > [adverb]
consciently1616
consciously1625
cognoscitively1647
cognizably1817
perceptually1878
cognitively1880
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > [adverb]
wittinglya1340
witting1377
knowingly1435
wottingly1530
cognoscitively1647
self-consciously1685
cognitively1880
1647 H. More Philos. Poems 162/1 We must not seek after that absolute or first good cognoscitively or imperfectly.
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