cognoscible
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cognoscible (not comparable)
- Capable of being known.
- a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
- matters intelligible and cognoscible
- Liable to judicial investigation.
- a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, A Letter written to a Gentlewoman seduced to the Church of Rome:
- For no good or wise person can believe that God hath tied our salvation to impossible measures , or bound us to an article that is not by us cognoscible
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “cognoscible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /koɡnosˈθible/ [koɣ̞.nosˈθi.β̞le]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /koɡnoˈsible/ [koɣ̞.noˈsi.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -ible
- Syllabification: cog‧nos‧ci‧ble
Adjective
[edit]cognoscible m or f (masculine and feminine plural cognoscibles)
Further reading
[edit]- “cognoscible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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