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cognoscing

cognoscing is the present participle and gerund of cognosce.

Meaning of cognosce

Verb

cognosce (third-person singular simple present cognosces, present participle cognoscing, simple past and past participle cognosced)

  1. (transitive) To determine a person to be insane or mentally incompetent.
    • […] directing him to enquire whether the Person sought to be Cognosced is Insane, who is his nearest Agnate, and whether such Agnate is of lawful age […]1869, Hugh Barclay, I. S. H. Laidlaw, The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 13
  2. (Scotland) To examine; to give judgment.

Questions about cognoscing

What is cognoscing the present participle and gerund of?
Cognoscing is the present participle and gerund of cognosce.

Words near cognoscing in the dictionary

  1. cognoscente
  2. cognoscenti
  3. cognosces
  4. cognoscibility
  5. cognoscible
  6. cognoscing
  7. cognoscitive
  8. cognoscitively
  9. cognovit
  10. cognovit clause
  11. cognovit clauses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cognoscing (page history and authors); cognosce (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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