cognoscible

English

Etymology

cognosce +‎ -ible

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒɡˈnɒsɪbəl/, /kəɡˈnɒsɪbəl/

Adjective

cognoscible (not comparable)

1. 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

2. 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

Related terms

• cognisable, cognizable
• cognisant
• recognise, recognize

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “cognoscible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /koɡnosˈθible/ [koɣ̞.nosˈθi.β̞le]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /koɡnoˈsible/ [koɣ̞.noˈsi.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: cog‧nos‧ci‧ble

Adjective

cognoscible m or f (masculine and feminine plural cognoscibles)

1. cognisable; knowable

Further reading

• “cognoscible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014