Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the power of knowing; cognitive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Having the power of knowing.

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  • adjective having the power of knowing

Etymologies

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From Latin cognōscō ("to know") + -itive

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