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Definition of Cognizers
1. cognizer [n] - See also: cognizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognizers
Literary usage of Cognizers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"They may be faint and weak ; they may be very vague cognizers of the same realities
which other conscious states cognize and name exactly ..."
2. Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals by William James (1900)
"... even though that mind be dubbed ' the Absolute/ to know the whole of it.
The facts and worths of life need many cognizers to take them ..."
3. The Canada Law Journal by William S. Hein & Company (1889)
"... satisfy, etc., or render himself to the custody of the sheriff of Middlesex,
or the cognizers, the present defendants, would do so for him. ..."
4. A Treatise on Federal Practice, Civil and Criminal: Including Practice in by Roger Foster (1920)
"... was usually a recognizance entered into by the receiver and two or more
sureties, whereby they, the cognizers, acknowledged "themselves to be indebted ..."
5. A Rational Refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems by Nīlakaṇṭha, Nehemiah Nīlakaṇṭha Gore, Fitzedward Hall (1862)
"... of tho ear as cognizing sound; I really understanding, however, that the eye
and the oar arc not themselves cognizers, but merely media of cognition. ..."
6. Popular Law Library, Putney by Albert Hutchinson Putney (1908)
"Hence it is preferable, in some cases, to a fine, as a fine lets in the incumbrances
of the ancestors as well as those of the cognizers. ..."
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