Definition of "cognoscible" []

• Capable of being known. (adjective)
• Liable to judicial investigation. (adjective)

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• "There are people who give dinners, and who are not cognoscible."
• "He wonders why the physiologists of old, having such means of instruction, did not inquire into the secrets of nature: but judiciously concludes, that such questions would probably have been vain; “for, in matters cognoscible, and formed for our disquisition, our industry must be our oracle, and reason our Apollo.”"
• "He is not only the first being, but the first and primary known, the primum esse and the primum cognoscible, as he is justly to be reckoned."