Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COG'GLE-STONE, n.

A small pebble.

COG'I-TA-BLE, a. [See Cogitate.]

That may be thought on; that may be meditated on. – Johnson.

COG'I-TATE, v.i. [L. cogito. Varro says from cogo, quasi coagito, to agitate in the mind. But the Gothic hugyan, and Sax. hogian, signify to think.]

To think; to meditate. [Little used.]

COG-I-TA'TION, n.

1. The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation. – Hooker. Bentley. Milton.
2. Thought directed to an object; purpose. – Bacon.

COG'I-TA-TIVE, a.

1. Thinking; having the power of thinking, or meditating; as, a cogitative substance. – Bentley.
2. Given to thought, or contemplation. – Wotton.

COG'NATE, a. [L. cognatus; con and nascor, to be born.]

1. Allied by blood; kindred by birth.
2. Related in origin; proceeding from the same stock; of the same family; as, a cognate dialect.
3. Allied in the manner of formation or utterance; uttered by the same organs; as, a cognate letter or sound.

COG'NATE, n.

In Scots law, any male relation through the mother. – Encyc.

COG'NATE-NESS, n.

State of being cognate. – Coleridge.

COG-NA'TION, n. [L. cognatio. See Cognate.]

1. In the civil law, kindred or natural relation between males and females, both descended from the same father; as, agnation is the relation between males only descended from the same stock. – Encyc.
2. Kindred; relation by descent from the same original. Pride and hard-heartedness are of near cognation to ingratitude. – Wotton.
3. Relation; participation of the same nature. – Brown.

COGN'I-AC, n. [co'niac.]

A kind of brandy of the best kind.

COGN-I-SOR', or COGN-I-SEE', n.

See COGNIZOR, or COGNIZEE.

COG-NI'TION, n. [L. cognitio; cognosco, cognitus, con and nosco, to know.]

Knowledge or certain knowledge, as from personal view or experience. – Shak. Brown.

COG'NI-TIVE, a.

Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. [Little used.] – South.

COGN'I-ZA-BLE, a. [con'izable; Fr. connoissable, from connoître, to know; It. cognoscere; Sp. conocer, conocible; Port. conhecer; from L. cognosco, con and nosco, to know personally; Gr. γινωσκω, id.]

1. That falls or may fall under judicial notice; that may be heard, tried, and determined; as, a cause or action is cognizable before the circuit court. These wrongs are cognizable by the ecclesiastical courts. – Blackstone.
2. That falls or may fall under notice or observation; that may be known, perceived, or apprehended. The cause of many phenomena is not cognizable by the senses. – Anon.

COGN'I-ZA-BLY, adv. [con'izably.]

In a cognizable manner. – Wordsworth.

COGN'I-ZANCE, n. [con'izance; Fr. connoissance; It cognoscenza; Sp. conocencia; Port. conhecença.]

1. Judicial notice or knowledge; the hearing, trying and determining of a cause or action in a court. The court of king's bench takes cognizance of civil and criminal causes. – Blackstone. In the United States, the district courts have cognizance of maritime causes.
2. Jurisdiction, or right to try and determine causes. The court of king's bench has original jurisdiction and cognizance of all actions of trespass vi et armis. – Blackstone.
3. In law, an acknowledgment or confession; as in fines, the acknowledgment of the cognizor or deforciant, that the right to the land in question is in the plaintif or cognizee, by gift or otherwise; in replevin, the acknowledgment of the defendant, that he took the goods, but alledging that he did it legally as the bailif of another person who had a right to distrain. – Blackstone.
4. A badge on the sleeve of a waterman or servant, by which he is known to belong to this or that nobleman or gentleman. – Encyc.
5. Knowledge or notice; perception; observation; as, the cognizance of the senses.
6. Knowledge by recollection. – Spenser.

COGN'I-ZANT, a. [con'izant.]

Having knowledge of.

COGN-I-ZEE', n. [conizee'.]

In law, one to whom a fine is acknowledged, or the plaintif in an action for the assurance of land by fine. – Blackstone.

COGN-I-ZOR', n. [conizor'.]

One who acknowledges the right of the plaintif or cognizee, in a fine; otherwise called the defendant or deforciant. – Blackstone.

COG-NO'MEN, n. [L.]

A surname.

COG-NOM'I-NAL, a. [L. cognomen, a surname; con and nomen, name.]

1. Pertaining to a surname.
2. Having the same name. [Little used.] – Brown.

COG-NOM-I-NA'TION, n. [L. cognomen.]

A surname; the name of a family; a name given from any accident or quality; as, Alexander the Great. – Brown.

COG-NOS'CENCE, n. [See Cognition.]

Knowledge; the act or state of knowing. [Little used.]

COG-NOS-CEN'TE, n.

A connoisseur. [Little used.]

COG-NOS-CI-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being cognoscible.