cognite

Verb

cognite (third-person singular simple present cognites, present participle cogniting, simple past and past participle cognited)

1. (intransitive) To become aware, or think so as to become aware, of some fundamental truth.
   • I abruptly cognited that "Have You Lived Before this Life?" was our first new book in two years.1959 April 27, L. Ron Hubbard, “HCO Policy Letter of 27 April 1959: Why New Books Are Few”, in The Organization Executive Course: An Encyclopedia of Scientology Policy, volume 2, published 1974...
   • Unlike psychoanalysis or psychiatry, the person (auditor) treating another person never evaluates for them. The processes used are intended to allow the person to cognite on his sins or wrongdoings and change his ways.1963 February 11, C. C. Morley, “[Letter to Edward V. Long]”, in Invasions of Privacy (Government Agencies): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure […] United...
2. (ambitransitive, nonce-word) To think or cogitate (about).
   • Behavior is patterned, but any pattern of behavior is only an abstraction from actual unique sequences of behavior. Society, culture, and personality are merely three different ways of perceiving, cogniting, and organizing these patterns.1971, Morse Peckham, Art and Pornography: An Experiment in Explanation, →ISBN, page 250
   • […] thus the task of the investigator of cognition is to cognite about the hidden cognitive structure of his subject.1974, Uriel G. Foa, Edna B. Foa, Societal Structures of the Mind, →ISBN, page 16