Definition of Cognoscible

1. Adjective. Capable of being known.

Exact synonyms: Cognisable, Cognizable, Knowable
Derivative terms: Know, Know, Know, Know, Know
Antonyms: Unknowable

Definition of Cognoscible

1. a. Capable of being known.

Definition of Cognoscible

1. Adjective. Capable of being known. ¹

2. Adjective. Liable to judicial investigation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cognoscible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognoscible

cognizors
cognomen
cognomens
cognometrics
cognomina
cognominal
cognominals
cognomination
cognosce
cognosced
cognoscence
cognoscente
cognoscenti
cognosces
cognoscibility
cognoscible (current term)
cognoscitive
cognovit
cognovit judgement
cognovit judgment
cognovits
cogon
cogons
cogovern
cogovernor
cogovernors

Literary usage of Cognoscible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"... however, the eft'ect of this separation of the body of law into the General Code and a number of special Codes, in rendering the law cognoscible, ..."

2. Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages: With a Great Variety of by Saint-Hilaire Blanc (1848)
"cognoscible. Cogollo,&m. Heart of garden-plants Shoot of a plant. Top. pi. Ornaments of the friezes of ..."

3. The Sensualistic Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Lewis Dabney (1887)
"He has done so by becoming our Creator, Ruler, Benefactor, Revealer; and in doing so He has become cognoscible to us ; not completely, yet truly cognoscible ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1908)
"... namely, the presence of something cognoscible, and thelight by which we judge concerning it, cognoscitivo habits are in a certain sense innate, ..."

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