a. [f. L. type *cognōscibil-is knowable, f. cognōsc-ĕre: see -BLE.]

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  1.  Capable of being known; knowable, ascertainable; recognizable.

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1648.  H. G., trans. Balzac’s Prince, 176. There remaines nothing … cognoscible in Germany, but the Sea and the Mountaines.

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a. 1691.  T. Barlow, Rem. (1693), 546. God is naturally cognoscible.

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1817.  Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. V. iii. 388. Definite, cognoscible circumstances.

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1825.  Bentham, Ration. Reward, 220. A determinate system of cognoscible laws.

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  b.  as sb. That which can be known.

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1683.  Tryon, Way to Health, 117. The Cognoscible, and the knowledge thereof.

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1845.  O. Brownson, Wks., VI. 5. Spiritual cognoscibles, or the immaterial realities capable of being known.

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  † 2.  Law. = COGNIZABLE 2. Obs.

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a. 1644.  Laud, Diary, etc. I. 333 (T.). In the high-commission we medled with no cause not cognoscible there.

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1706.  Act 6 Anne c. 11 Art. xix. No causes in Scotland [shall] be cognoscible by the courts … in Westminster Hall.

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1736.  Carte, Ormonde, II. 210. Rules of plantation being only cognoscible at the Council-board.

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