Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: COG'GLE-STONE – COG-NOS-CI-BIL'I-TY
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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.
- The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation. – Hooker. Bentley. Milton.
- Thought directed to an object; purpose. – Bacon.
COG'I-TA-TIVE, a.
- Thinking; having the power of thinking, or meditating; as, a cogitative substance. – Bentley.
- Given to thought, or contemplation. – Wotton.
COG'NATE, a. [L. cognatus; con and nascor, to be born.]
- Allied by blood; kindred by birth.
- Related in origin; proceeding from the same stock; of the same family; as, a cognate dialect.
- 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.]
- 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.
- Kindred; relation by descent from the same original. Pride and hard-heartedness are of near cognation to ingratitude. – Wotton.
- 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.]
- 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.
- 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.]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Knowledge or notice; perception; observation; as, the cognizance of the senses.
- 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.]
- Pertaining to a surname.
- 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.]
The quality of being cognoscible.