Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being known.
- Liable or subject to judicial investigation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being known.
- adjective Liable to judicial investigation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
known . - adjective Liable to
judicial investigation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being known
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Examples
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There are people who give dinners, and who are not cognoscible.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878
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He wonders why the physiologists of old, having such means of instruction, did not inquire into the secrets of nature: but judiciously concludes, that such questions would probably have been vain; “for, in matters cognoscible, and formed for our disquisition, our industry must be our oracle, and reason our Apollo.”
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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He is not only the first being, but the first and primary known, the primum esse and the primum cognoscible, as he is justly to be reckoned.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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"Quum enim ad cognitionem duo concurrant necessario, videlicet praesentia cognoscibilis et lumen quo mediante de illo judicamus, habitus cognoscitivi sunt quodammodo nobis innati ratione luminis animo inditi; sunt etiam acquisiti ratione speciei" -- "For as two things necessarily concur for cognition, namely, the presence of something cognoscible, and the light by which we judge concerning it, cognoscitive habits are in a certain sense innate, by reason of the light wherewith the mind is endowed; and they are also acquired, by reason of the species."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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What Berkeley does not seem to have so clearly perceived is that the non-existence of a substance of mind is equally arguable; and that the result of the impartial application of his reasonings is the reduction of the all to co-existences and sequences of phenomena, beneath and beyond which there is nothing cognoscible. "
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What Berkeley does not seem to have so clearly perceived is that the non-existence of a substance of mind is equally arguable; and that the result of the impartial application of his reasonings is the reduction of the all to co-existences and sequences of phenomena, beneath and beyond which there is nothing cognoscible.”
Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900
blafferty commented on the word cognoscible
This word sounds like you're chewing, or at least your mouth moves like you're chewing. That seems very appropriate to me.
May 25, 2009