cognoscence

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English

Etymology

From Latin cognoscentia. See cognizance.

Pronunciation

Noun

cognoscence (uncountable)

  1. Cognizance.
    • 1659, Henry More, chapter XI, in The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: J Flesher, for William Morden , →OCLC, book III, paragraph 4, page 438:
      Beſides, there being that communication betwixt the Earth and the Aire, that at leaſt the fame of things will arrive to their cognoſcence that have left this life; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cognoscence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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