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cognizable, -isable, a.|ˈkɒgnɪzəb(ə)l, ˈkɒnɪ-|
[f. cognize (or rather originally from stem of cogniz-ance) + -able. Since cognize has become a familiar word, there is a tendency in sense 1 to pronounce (kɒgˈnaɪzəbl); cf. recognize, recognizable.]
1. Capable of being known, perceived, or apprehended by the senses or intellect; perceptible.
1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. (1702) 95 Their Injuries may be cognizable, but not their Benefits. 1777Cockin Mist in Phil. Trans. LXX. 160 note, The vapours are said to be of a tenuity cognizable by the sight. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 187 That..is not cognizable by our senses. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xxxix. (1859) II. 392 Admitting that causation were cognisable, and that perception and self-consciousness were competent to its apprehension. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. v. 141 A period dimly cognisable in the remotest past.
b. Capable of being recognized, recognizable.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) IV. c. 301 His features were scarce cognizable. 1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) II. li. 242 Aesop..is cognizable, by his deformity. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay vi, We exchanged clothes, in such a manner as to render us no longer cognizable. 1854J. Kennedy Swallow B. (1860) 18 Without one cognizable face before me.
2. Capable of being, or liable to be, judicially examined or tried; within the jurisdiction of a court of law or the like.
1681Hickeringill Vind. Naked Truth ii. 18 All matters cognisable in Spiritual Courts. 1690Penn. Archives I. 110 We..find the major part of the writing not cognizable by us, or within our province. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 25 These courts can hold no plea of matters cognizable by the common law. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. I. xii. 484 Every sort of plea that was cognisable under royal writ. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. xi. 444 Making all offences against it cognizable in the courts of admiralty.
b. spec. in Anglo-Indian law: see quots.
1882Code Crim. Procedure §4 ‘Cognisable offence’ means any offence for, and ‘cognisable case’ means a case in, which a police-officer..may..arrest without warrant. 1883J. F. Stephen Hist. Crim. Law III. 331 The offences [in the Indian Code of Crim. Proc.] called by the somewhat ill-chosen name of cognizable offences.
Hence cognizableness.
1871W. G. Ward Ess. (1884) I. 68 The intuitive cognizableness of such a proposition. 1875Contemp. Rev. XXV. 528 He who denies the cognizableness of necessary truth. |
