Cognize vs Cogitate - What's the difference?
cognize | cogitate |
To know or be aware of.
* 1934 , :
To select a pattern of information and assign it as an entity.
To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
* Francis Bacon
* 1953 ,
To consider, to devise.
As verbs the difference between cognize and cogitate
is that cognize is to know or be aware of while cogitate is to meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.cognize
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Alternative forms
* cognise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
(cogniz)- [T]hey must possess organs of sight—some method of cognizing their environment—akin to that of vision in man.
cogitate
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Verb
(cogitat)- He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.
- Think, ladies! Cogitate ! Sharpen up the edges of your wit.