cognizability (kog"nior konizabiliti)

[ cognizable: see- bility.] The quality of being cognizable. Also spelled cog nis ability. cognizable (kog'nior kon'i-za-bl), a. [Formerly also conn us able, conus able; No articulate sound is cognizable until the inarticulate sounds which go to make it up have been learned. H. Spencer, Education, p. 130. 2. Capable of being subjected to judicial examination in a court; within the scope of the jurisdiction; capable of being, or liable to be, heard, tried, and determined. I last winter erected a court of justice for the correct ing of several enormities in dre and behaviour, which are not cognizable in any other courts of this realm. Add is on, Institution of the Court. The canonists affirm that a suit may be brought in the ecclesiastical court for every matter which is not cogni sable in the courts of secular law, and for a great many matters which are so cognisable . Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 316. Also spelled cognisable . cognizably (kog'nior kon'i-za-bli), adv . In a cognizable manner. Also spelled cognisably . cognizance (kog'nior kon'i-zans), n. [Formerly also conn usance, con usance ; konichauns , etc., sance ), conoi ant , ppr. of conoistre, conostre, etc., L. cognoscere , know: see cognition , and ef. cognizable , connoi eur .] 1. Knowledge or cognoscente com. term. -ize (as if from cognizance, cogniza ble, regarded as cognize + -ance, -able). Cf. recognize, agnize, and cognosce, and see cognizance, etc.] To make an object of cognition or thought; perceive; become conscious of; know. Also spelled cognise. It would also be convenient,. for psychological precision and emphasis, to use the word to cognize in connection with its noun cognition. But in this instance the nece ity is not strong enough to warrant our doing what Sir W. Hamilton , Metaph., xxi. custom has not done. Consciously to know a thing, that is, to cognize it. Animals know objects, but do not cognize them. Kant , Logic (tr. by Abbott).