a. A non-etymological formation for COGNITIVE; used sometimes, more especially, with an inchoative sense: apprehensive.
1640. Bp. Reynolds, Passions, xxxiii. 404. All bodily cognoscitive faculties.
a. 1688. Cudworth, Immut. Mor. (1731), 134. The Soul having an Innate Cognoscitive Power.
1830. Blackw. Mag., XXVIII. 880. A wise man, cognoscitive and sensitive of the blessings of this life.
1871. W. G. Ward, Ess. (1884), I. 28. It would be ‘contrary to all analogy’ if man’s cognoscitive faculties did not … receive … ‘development and education.’
Hence Cognoscitively adv.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, 162/1. We must not seek after that absolute or first good cognoscitively or imperfectly.
