Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRAE-COG'NI-TA
PRAE-COG'NI-TA, n. [PRÆ-COG'NI-TA. plur. L. before known.]
Things previously known in order to understand something else. Thus a knowledge of the structure of the human body is one of the præcognita of medical science and skill.
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