Word Meanings - INCOGNIZANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice. This incognizance may be explained. Sir W. Hamilton.

Related words: (words related to INCOGNIZANCE)

• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• EXPLAIN
  out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
• INCOGNIZANCE
  Failure to cognize, apprehended, or notice. This incognizance may be explained. Sir W. Hamilton.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• NOTICEABLE
  Capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous. A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. Wordsworth.
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• 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.
• NOTICER
  One who notices.
• EXPLAINABLE
  Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted. Sir. T. Browne.
• NOTICEABLY
  In a noticeable manner.
• EXPLAINER
  One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
• APPREHENDER
  One who apprehends.
• APPREHEND
  of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
• RECOGNIZER
  One who recognizes; a recognizor.
• MISCOGNIZE
  To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand. Holland.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• SELF-EXPLAINING
  Explaining itself; capable of being understood without explanation.
• MISAPPREHEND
  To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.
• RECOGNIZE
  1. To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of. Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen. Harte. 2. To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit,