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Cognize vs Cognizee - What's the difference?

cognize | cognizee |

As a verb cognize

is to know or be aware of.

As a noun cognizee is

one to whom a fine of land was acknowledged.

cognize

English

Alternative forms

* cognise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Verb

(cogniz)
  • To know or be aware of.
  • * 1934 , :
    • [T]hey must possess organs of sight—some method of cognizing their environment—akin to that of vision in man.
  • To select a pattern of information and assign it as an entity.

    • Related terms

    * recognize

    cognizee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) One to whom a fine of land was acknowledged.
    • (Blackstone)
    (Webster 1913)