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- verb Alternative spelling of
cognize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
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Examples
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A debate would only demonstrate who is more appealing, articulate and cognise of the nation and world issues and prepared to address them.
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One cannot mistake state A for state B since one must first cognise state A.
Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009
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But there is no analogous “hard school” in which we learn how to deploy verbs such as ˜cognise™ and
Gilbert Ryle Tanney, Julia 2007
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Again, if you clinically crazy, if you clinally a mad-man, if your someone who is a liar and can not see your hand in front of your face, or cognise simpleton issues–yet they “are doing what they think is right”.
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The most likely situation is you have 50% of people who are educated and can see and cognise very basic things, and the other half are crooked and sick and very very stupid.
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By bringing in the quinquennial series, Vandin wishes to assert that the five senses are competent to cognise their respective objects and that besides these senses and their objects there is neither any other sense to perceive nor any other object of perception.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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All science proceeds thus, and the reason that savants have not unearthed the precious object for which they seek with such wonderful perseverance is that the physical senses, even when aided by the most delicate instruments, are able to cognise only a portion of the physical Universe -- the denser portion.
Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal
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It is by the breaks, the turnings in the road that we cognise its course.
Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Alexander Philip
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The koilon is to us non-manifestation, because we have not unfolded powers which enable us to cognise it, and it may be the manifestation of a loftier order of LOGOI, utterly beyond our ken.
Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements Annie Wood Besant 1890
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And that Scripture _is_ founded on something defective is known at the very time of hearing Scripture, for the reflection (which follows on hearing) consists in repeated attempts to cognise the oneness of Brahman -- a cognition which is destructive of all the plurality apprehended through the first hearing of the Veda.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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