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to cognize

to cognize

1 9.6
To notice and understand something in your mind
  • verb
  • /ˈkɒɡnaɪz/
translation icon : reconocer
  • You will want a duo that will cognize as though you are not exerting any effort at all.

So how do we cognize divine attributes?

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Examples

  • Musical involvements require reasoning, thinking, creating, and cognizing; they require intelligences of the sort that various musical roles distinctively and characteristically enable humans to exhibit.

    Academic text (1999)
  • It is a spiritual reality, not a physical one, so it requires spiritual activity to cognize it.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Finally, to know, to cognize, to understand, is to stand at a distance from the real.

    Academic text (2017)
  • So how do we cognize divine attributes?

  • Every child who watches television, whether he or she could say it, be conscious of it, cognize it or not, is learning.

  • It has knowledge, it is able to cognize everything being there for it.

  • This is so because the intellect, by nature, can cognize the natures of all bodies.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Thus, phantasms and the possible intellect are informed by different kinds of species and therefore have different acts of receiving forms; that is, different acts of cognizing.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Knowledge is not passively received but actively built up by the cognizing subject; (2) the function of cognition is adaptive and serves the organization of the experiential world, not the discovery of ontological reality.

    Academic text (1994)
  • He can cognize patterns in the data that others often overlook.

Synonyms

to know
vsto cognize
1.0

To have information about something

is general awareness including immediate perception rather than only learned information
to see
vsto cognize
1.0

To understand what something means

is broader general awareness not necessarily involving sudden clarity
to realize
vsto cognize
  • US
1.1

To suddenly understand something you did not know before

is ongoing general mental awareness rather than a sudden new discovery
to understand
vsto cognize
1.0

To feel sorry and see why someone acts or feels that way

is basic mental awareness or recognition rather than deep grasp with sympathy
to recognize
vsto cognize
  • US
705 1.4

To be fully aware that something is true or happening

is broader mental awareness rather than sudden full realization
to sense
vsto cognize
629 4.2

To notice something by feeling or by using a tool

is focused on mental recognition and knowledge rather than physical detection
to perceive
vsto cognize
369 3.0

To become aware of something in your mind and understand it

is broader mental awareness without emphasis on detailed noticing
to comprehend
vsto cognize
137 2.7

To understand the meaning of something

is simpler awareness rather than deep or full grasp of meaning
to discern
vsto cognize
70 5.8

To notice something that is hard to see or hear

is general awareness that does not imply effort or difficulty to detect
to take notice
vsto cognize
42 3.5

To see and pay attention to something

is general mental awareness without special attention or focused observation
to apprehend
vsto cognize
  • Formal
9 4.3

To understand the meaning of something

is simpler awareness or recognition rather than an active deep mental grasp
to intuit
vsto cognize
8 7.5

To know something quickly without thinking about it

is ordinary awareness achieved by thinking or sensing rather than instinct alone
to agnize
vsto cognize
  • Archaic
9.9

To recognize and accept something as true or real

is the modern general term used instead in everyday language
to apperceive
vsto cognize
  • Specialized
9.9

To notice something and connect it to past experiences

is plain awareness without linking the new input to past experience

How Perceived

to know
1.0
to cognize
1 9.6
to recognize
  • US
1.4
to perceive
83 3.7
to notice
1.0
to miss
518 1.7

Surface Forms

cognize infinitive
cognized past
cognized past participle
cognizing present participle
cognizes third person singular

Morphology

cognize = recognize (semi-transparent) = cogn + ize

The verb is formed with the productive suffix '-ize' on the combining form 'cogn-'; learners familiar with related words such as 'recognize' or 'cognition' can infer the meaning, but 'cogn-' is not a standalone common word, so inference is partial.

Etymology

Cognize comes from the Latin verb cognoscere, made of co- 'together' and gnosc- 'know'. It is like English words such as recognize and knowledge, so to cognize something is to 'know' or mentally notice it.