Pronounced: DOT-uhr-uhl, noun
Notes: I didn’t know this word, but it turns out I did know some of the background
Yesterday’s word
The word cognizable means
- capable of being judicially heard and determined
- capable of being known
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1600s
Background / Comments
I knew the second definition above, but that turns out to be the less common usage. From its beginning through today, the first definition – the legal one – is the more common sense of the word. Our word has the prefix cogni-, which traces back to the Latin word cognoscere (to know).
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