Table 1.
Cognition words defined and listed by date.
| Date of First Appearance | Term | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Circa 1225 | Cogitation | The action of thinking or reflecting; attentive consideration, reflection, meditation |
| 1325 | Recognizance | A bond or obligation by which a person undertakes before a court or magistrate to perform some act or observe some condition |
| 1388–89 | Recognize | Of a feudal superior: to resume possession of land |
| 1394 | Cognizant (-isant) | To know, recognize |
| 1400 | Cognizance (-sance) | Knowledge, understanding; also acquaintance |
| 1400–1 | Recognosce | Of a feudal superior; to resume possession of (land) |
| 1436 | Recognizor | One who enters into a recognizance |
| 1447 | Cognition | The action or faculty of knowing; knowledge, consciousness; acquaintance with a subject |
| 1450 | Recognition | Knowledge or consciousness; understanding |
| 1460 | Recognitor | A member of a jury impanelled on an assize or inquest |
| 1477 | Discognisance | Non-recognition |
| 1490 | Cogitative | Having the power or faculty of thought; thinking (as a permanent attribute) |
| About 1500 | Precognition | Antecedent cognition or knowledge; (supposed) foreknowledge, esp. as a form of extrasensory perception |
| 1522 | Incogitable | Unthinkable, inconceivable |
| 1529 | Uncogitable | Obsolete word |
| 1531–32 | Cognizee (-isee) | The party in whose favour a fine of land was levied; he to whom cognizance was made |
| 1540 | Miscognizant | Not cognizant, knowledgeable, or aware; ignorant of something; spec. ignorant of the law, or some aspect of it |
| 1569 | Precogitate | To cogitate, think, or think over beforehand; to consider beforehand, premeditate |
| 1586 | Cognitive | Of or pertaining to cognition, or the action or process of knowing; having the attribute of cognizing |
| 1591 | Recogitation | The action or result of thinking over something again; an instance of this |
| 1592 | Recognizee | The person to whom another is bound in a recognizance |
| 1596 | Precogitation | Previous consideration or meditation; thinking over beforehand; a prior reflection or idea |
| 1602 | Recogitate | To think over (something) again |
| 1603 | Miscognize | To fail to appreciate or acknowledge |
| 1608 | Recognizer | A person who (or occasionally a thing which) recognizes someone or something |
| 1609 | Incognite | Unknown |
| 1611 | Recognizon | Acknowledgement |
| 1612 | Incogitancy | Want of thought or reflection; thoughtlessness, heedlessness, negligence; inadvertence |
| 1624 | Praecognitum | A thing already known, especially a thing needed or assumed to be known in order to infer or ascertain something else |
| 1628 | Incogitant | Thoughtless, unthinking; characterized by want of thought; inconsiderate |
| 1633 | Cogitate | To think, reflect, ponder, meditate; to exercise the thinking faculties |
| 1637 | Incogitance | Want of thought |
| 1638 | Incognito | An unknown man; one who conceals his identity; an anonymous person |
| About 1645 | Precogitancy | Prior consideration or thought |
| 1648 | Incogitantly | Unthinkingly, thoughtlessly, without consideration or reflection |
| 1649 | Cogitabund | Musing, meditating, thoughtful, deep in thought |
| 1652 | Incogitate | Not thought of; unexpected; unpremeditated |
| 1654 | Precognit | A preliminary discussion |
| 1659 | Cognize (-ise) | To take cognizance |
| 1659 | Decognize | To cease or fail to recognize |
| 1671 | Incognita | A feminine version of incognito |
| 1678 | Cognizable (-sable) | Capable of being known, perceived, or apprehended by the senses or intellect; perceptible |
| 1680 | Cogitant | Thinking, that thinks |
| 1682 | Recognizable | Able to be recognized or identified; that permits recognition |
| 1688 | Cogitability | Capability of being thought or conceived |
| 1688 | Cogitable | That can be thought or conceived; thinkable, conceivable |
| 1690 | Incogitative | Unthinking; destitute of the thinking faculty |
| 1691 | Incognoscible | Unknowable, beyond cognizance |
| 1720 | Uncognizable | |
| 1722 | Cogitativity | Capacity or power of thinking |
| 1726 | Precognizance | Prior knowledge or understanding |
| 1759 | Cogitancy | Cogitant or thinking quality |
| 1790 | Recognized | Acknowledged, accepted; known, identified |
| 1802 | Recognitive | Of, relating to, or involving recognition or acknowledgment; that recognizes |
| 1813 | Recognitory | Of, or relating to, recognition or acknowledgement |
| 1817 | Cognizably | In a cognizable manner; recognizably; perceptibly |
| 1821 | Uncognoscible | |
| 1824 | Incognoscibility | The quality or condition of being incognoscible; unknowableness |
| 1827 | Cognitional | Of or pertaining to cognition |
| 1827 | Uncognoscibility | |
| 1831 | Recognizably | To a recognizable degree, perceptibly; in a recognizable manner |
| 1836 | Recognizability | The fact or quality of being recognizable |
| 1837 | Incognizant | Not cognizant; without cognizance, knowledge, or apprehension of; unaware, unconscious of |
| 1840 | Precognizant | Having previous cognizance; having prior knowledge or understanding (of something) |
| 1852 | Incognizable | Not cognizable; incapable of being known, perceived, or apprehended by the senses or intellect; incapable of recognition |
| 1853 | Incogitability | The quality of being unthinkable; incapability of being thought |
| 1854 | Cogito | The principle ‘cogito, ergo sum’, or any equivalent formula, by which Descartes claimed to establish his own existence as a thinking being from the fact of his thinking or awareness; loosely, conscious awareness or subjectivity |
| 1856 | Incognizance | Want of knowledge or recognition |
| 1860 | Incognizability | The quality of being incognizable |
| 1860 | Uncognisant | |
| 1862 | Incognitive | Destitute of the faculty for cognition; unable to take cognizance |
| 1866 | Cogitandum | That which should be thought; the ideal or correct processes of thought, as opposed to the actual processes |
| 1875 | Cognitum | An object of cognition |
| 1877 | Uncognized | |
| 1878 | Cogitatum | That which is thought; the actual processes of thought, as opposed to the ideal thought-processes |
| 1880 | Cognitively | In a cognitive manner; with regard to, or from the point of view of, cognition |
| 1880 | Cognitor | An attorney or procurator |
| 1952 | Cognitivist | One who holds that moral judgments are true or false statements about moral facts |
| 1954 | Precog | A person who predicts something; a person with precognition |