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Webster 1913 Edition

Cognition

Cog-ni′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
cognitio
, fr.
cognoscere
,
cognitum
, to become acquainted with, to know;
co-
+
noscere
,
gnoscere
, to get a knowledge of. See
Know
,
Verb.
T.
]
1.
The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
I will not be myself nor have
cognation

Of what I feel: I am all patience.
Shakespeare
2.
That which is known.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cognition

COGNITION

,
Noun.
Knowledge or certain knowledge, as from personal view or experience.

Definition 2024

cognition

cognition

English

Noun

cognition ‎(countable and uncountable, plural cognitions)

  1. The process of knowing.
  2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

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  • cognition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • cognition in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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From Middle English cognicion, from Latin cognitio ‎(“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere ‎(“to know”), from co- ‎(“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere ‎(“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.

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