Also 8 conn-. Pl. -ti. [Ital.] = COGNOSCENTE, q.v.
1766. R. Griffith, Lett. betw. Henry & Fr., III. 10. Attend to her with this connocente view.
1783. Cowper, Lett., 29 June. Such a phenomenon … has occasioned much speculation among the connoscenti at this place.
1837. Athenæum, No. 504. 469. The common print-shop lounger as well as the conoscente.
1842. Lytton, Zanoni, 21. He had been deposed … for having shocked the conoscenti.
