cognoscitive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cognōscō (“to know”) + -itive.

Adjective[edit]

cognoscitive (not comparable)

  1. having the power of knowing
    • 1915, Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on Habits:
      And therefore the act of knowledge is terminated in the intellect; and for this reason the cognoscitive virtues are in the intellect itself, or the reason.

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