• Cognize

    Alternative forms

    • cognise non-Oxford British spelling

    Origin

    Back-formation from {{3}}

    Full definition of cognize

    Verb

    1. To know or be aware of.
      • 1934, George Henry Weiss, :They must possess organs of sight—some method of cognizing their environment—akin to that of vision in man.
    2. To select a pattern of information and assign it as an entity.

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