Word Meanings - COGNIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To know or perceive; to recognize. The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it. H. Spencer.

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• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• REASONABLY
  1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
• PERCEIVER
  One who perceives . Milton.
• PERCEIVE
  perceptum; per + capere to take, receive. See Capacious, 1. To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the
• UNTIL
  1. To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser. 2. To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening;
• REASONIST
  A rationalist. Such persons are now commonly called "reasonists" and "rationalists," to distinguish them from true reasoners and rational inquirers. Waterland.
• RECOGNIZER
  One who recognizes; a recognizor.
• COGNIZANCE
  conaissance, LL. cognoscentia, fr. L. cognoscere to know. See 1. Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation. Within the cognizance and lying under the control of their divine Governor. Bp. Hurd 2. Recollection; recognition. Who,
• REASONABLE
  1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being. 2. Governed by reason; being under influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason;
• REASONABLENESS
  Quality of being reasonable.
• SPENCER
  A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England . Spencer mast,
• COGNIZEE
  One to whom a fine of land was ackowledged. Blackstone.
• COGNIZE
  To know or perceive; to recognize. The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it. H. Spencer.
• COGNIZANT
  Having cognizance or knowledge. .
• REASON
  Ratio; proportion. Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view.
• COGNIZABLY
  In a cognizable manner.
• UNTILE
  To take the tiles from; to uncover by removing the tiles.
• REASONER
  One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.
• INCOGNIZABLE
  Not cognizable; incapable of being recognized, known, or distinguished. H. Spenser. The Lettish race, not a primitive stock of the Slavi, but a distinct branch, now become incognizable. Tooke.
• APPERCEIVE
  To perceive; to comprehend. Chaucer.
• UNREASONABLE
  Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
• INCOGNIZANCE
  Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice. This incognizance may be explained. Sir W. Hamilton.
• UNDERFACULTY
  An inferior or subordinate faculty.
• PRECOGNIZABLE
  Cognizable beforehand.
• RECOGNIZOR; RECOGNISOR
  One who enters into a recognizance. Blackstone.
• TREASONABLE
  Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;
• MISCOGNIZE
  To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand. Holland.
• OUTREASON
  To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than. South.