Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
cognize is a verb meaning "be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about". It carries one recorded sense.
be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
“I know that the President lied to the people”
“I want to know who is winning the game!”
“I know it's time”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cognize come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.