a. rare. [ad. L. cognōscent-em, pr. pple. of cognōscĕre to know.]
1. Knowing; cognitive.
1649. Bulwer, Pathomyot., I. § 6. 28. The Muscles … are not endued with any Cognoscent powers.
1825. New Monthly Mag., XIII. 142. A cognoscent air of legal gravity.
2. Cognizant; acquainted.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 687. If I were not before cognoscent of its existence.
1847. Tait’s Mag., XIV. 574. The subject is not one with which we are personally cognoscent.
