a. (UN-1 7.)
1830. Ladies’ Mus., XXXII. Dec., 341. The world did not comprehend, nor could it have been reconciled to, that long chain of causes and effects which separates, it might be said which exiles, us of this day from heaven, and renders the Deity, like his Platonic shadow, careless and uncognizant of human destinies.
1840. J. Ogden, in Heads of the People, 236. They are not insensible to the spirit of Milton’s lines, although utterly uncognisant of the lines themselves.
1845. T. Cooper, Purgatory of Suicides, I. civ.
| For, a host | |
| Of names have won from men extravagant | |
| Applause, while of their Truth was uncognisant. |
1854. Mrs. Stowe, Sunny Memories, xxxvi. II. 259. We were as uncognizant of the scenery we passed through as if we had been nailed up in a box.
1860. Gosse, Rom. Nat. Hist., 153. There exists a world of animated beings … of which our senses are altogether uncognisant.
1915. H. M. Jones, A Little Book of Local Verse, 20.
| … The stream remains, | |
| Full-breasted and inscrutable, | |
| Indifferent to mortal pains, | |
| Uncognizant of man who strains | |
| Conquered, and yet unconquerable, | |
| And it is well. |
