Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not cognizable; such as no finite mind can know; not to be known by man; not to be recognized. Also spelled
incognisable .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not cognizable; incapable of being recognized, known, or distinguished.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
cognizable ; incapable of beingrecognised .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being perceived or known
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Examples
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And in the very act of declaring the First Cause incognizable, you do not permit it to remain unknown.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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All this time the incognizable _nouveau_ was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.
The Enormous Room 1928
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By entité is generally understood a substance which the imagination grasps, but which is incognizable by the senses and the reason.
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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Theology dogmatizing on the authority of its myths, philosophy speculating by the aid of categories, God has existed as a transcendental conception, incognizable by the reason, and the hypothesis always subsists.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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Their features are incognizable so disfigured are they with stripes and daubs in red, white, black and sometimes yellow.
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882
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And as to perfect success, I should be like the panic-stricken shopkeepers in my alarm at it; for I should believe that genii of the air fly above our tree-tops between us and the incognizable spheres, catching those ambitious shafts they deem it a promise of fun to play pranks with.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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And as to perfect success, I should be like the panic-stricken shopkeepers in my alarm at it; for I should believe that genii of the air fly above our tree-tops between us and the incognizable spheres, catching those ambitious shafts they deem it a promise of fun to play pranks with.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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And as to perfect success, I should be like the panic-stricken shopkeepers in my alarm at it; for I should believe that genii of the air fly above our tree-tops between us and the incognizable spheres, catching those ambitious shafts they deem it a promise of fun to play pranks with.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The infinite, discharged from all relation to the finite, could never come into apprehension; and the finite, discharged of all relation to the infinite, is incognizable too.
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It predicates contradiction of two extremes, which are asserted to be equally incomprehensible and incognizable.
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