Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 81
Coggle (n.) A cobblestone. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Coggle (v.) Walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle].
Coggle (v.) Move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street" [syn: wobble, coggle].
Cogitability (n.) The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness.
Cogitable (a.) Capable of being brought before the mind as a thought or idea; conceivable; thinkable.
Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Cogitable (a.) Capable of being thought about; "space flight to other galaxies becomes more cogitable" [syn: cogitable, ponderable].
Cogitabund (a.) Full of thought; thoughtful. [R.] -- Leigh Hunt.
Cogitated (imp. & p. p.) of Cogitate.
Cogitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cogitate.
Cogitate (v. i.) To engage in continuous thought; to think.
He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. -- Bacon.
Cogitate (v. t.) To think over; to plan.
He . . . is our witness, how we both day and night, revolving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor. -- Foxe.
Cogitate (v.) Consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind.
Cogitate (v.) Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" [syn: think, cogitate, cerebrate].
Cogitation (n.) The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation. "Fixed in cogitation deep." -- Milton.
Cogitation (n.) A carefully considered thought about something; "his cogitations were dutifully recorded in his daybook".
Cogitation (n.) Attentive consideration and meditation; "after much cogitation he rejected the offer" [syn: cogitation, study].
Cogitative (a.) Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating. "Cogitative faculties." -- Wollaston.
Cogitative (a.) Given to thought or contemplation. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Cogitative (a.) Of or relating to having capacities for cogitation; "the cogitative faculty".
Cogitative (a.) Given to cogitation; "he looked at me with cogitative eyes".
Cogman (n.) A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth. [Obs.] -- Wright.
Cognac (n.) [F.] A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.
Cognac (n.) High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France.
Cognate (a.) Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
Cognate (a.) Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.
Cognate (n.) (Law) One who is related to another on the female side. -- Wharton.
Cognate (n.) One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.
Cognate (a.) Related in nature; "connate qualities" [syn: connate, cognate].
Cognate (a.) Having the same ancestral language; "cognate languages".
Cognate (a.) Related by blood [syn: akin(p), blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, kin(p)].
Cognate (n.) One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another [syn: blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib].
Cognate (n.) A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language [syn: cognate, cognate word].
Cognateness (n.) The state of being cognate.
Cognati (n. pl.) [L.] (Law) Relatives by the mother's side. -- Wharton.
Cognati, () cognates. This term occurs frequently in the Roman civil law, and denotes collateral heirs through females. It is not used in the civil law as it now prevails in France. In the common law it has no technical sense, but as a word of discourse in English it signifies, generally, allied by blood, related in origin, of the same family. See Vicat, ad verb.; also, Biret's Vocabulaire.
Cognation (n.) Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.
As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. -- Jer. Taylor.
Cognation (n.) Participation of the same nature. -- Sir T. Browne.
A like temper and cognation. -- Sir K. Digby.
Cognation (n.) (Law) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.
Cognation (n.) Line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family [syn: matrilineage, enation, cognation].
Cognation (n.) (Anthropology) related by blood [syn: consanguinity, blood kinship, cognation] [ant: affinity].
Cognation, () civil law. Signifies generally the kindred which exists between two persons who are united by ties of blood or family, or both.
Cognation, () Cognation is of three kinds: natural, civil, or mixed. Natural cognation is that which is alone formed by ties of blood; such is the kindred of those who owe their origin to an illicit connexion, either in relation to their ascendants or collaterals.
Cognation, () Civil cognation is that which proceeds alone from the ties of families as the kindred between the adopted father and the adopted child.
Cognation, () Mixed cognation is that which unites at the same time the ties of blood and family, as that which exists between brothers, the issue of the same lawful marriage. 6; Dig. 38, 10.
Cognatus (n.) (Law) A person connected through cognation. Cognisor
Cognisor (n.) Alt. of Cognisee
Cognisee (n.) See Cognizor, Cognizee.
Cognisor, () English law. One who passes or acknowledges,a fine of lands or tenements to another, in distinction from the cognisee, to whom the fine of the lands, &c. is acknowledged.
Cognition (n.) 認知；知識 The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
I will not be myself nor have cognation Of what I feel: I am all patience. -- Shak.
Cognition (n.) That which is known.
Cognition (n.) The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning [syn: cognition, knowledge, noesis].
Cognitive (a.) 認知的；認識的 Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. -- South.
Cognitive (a.) Of or being or relating to or involving cognition; "cognitive psychology"; "cognitive style".
Cognizable (a.) Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes.
Cognizable (a.) Fitted to be a subject of judicial investigation; capable of being judicially heard and determined.
Cognizable both in the ecclesiastical and secular courts. -- Ayliffe.
Cognizable (a.) Capable of being known [syn: knowable, cognizable, cognisable, cognoscible] [ant: unknowable].
Cognizably (adv.) In a cognizable manner.
Cognizance (n.) Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
Within the cognizance and lying under the control of their divine Governor. -- Bp. Hurd
Cognizance (n.) Recollection; recognition.
Who, soon as on that knight his eye did glance, Eftsoones of him had perfect cognizance. -- Spenser.
Cognizance (n.) (Law) Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.
Cognizance (n.) (Law) The hearing a matter judicially.
Cognizance (n.) (Law) An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.
Cognizance (n.) (Law) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another.
Cognizance (n.) The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known.
Wearing the liveries and cognizance of their master. -- Prescott.
This pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate. -- Shak.
Cognizance (n.) Having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive" [syn: awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingness] [ant: incognizance].
Cognizance (n.) Range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken" [syn: cognizance, ken].
Cognizance (n.) Range or scope of what is perceived.
Cognizant (a.) Having cognizance or knowledge. (of).
Cognizant (a.) (Sometimes followed by `of') Having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit" [syn: aware(p), cognizant, cognisant] [ant: incognizant, unaware].
Cognize (v. t.) To know or perceive; to recognize.
The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it. -- H. Spencer.
Cognize (v.) 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" [syn: know, cognize, cognise] [ant: ignore].
Cognizee (n.) (Law) One to whom a fine of land was acknowledged. -- Blackstone.
Cognizor (n.) (Law) One who acknowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant. -- Blackstone.
Cognomen (n.) The last of the three names of a person among the ancient Romans, denoting his house or family.
Cognomen (n.) (Eng. Law) A surname.
Cognomen (n.) A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname].
Cognomen (n.) The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) [syn: surname, family name, cognomen, last name].
Cognomen. () A Latin word, which signifies a family name. The praenomen among the Romans distinguished the person, the nomen, the gens, or all the kindred descended from a remote common stock through males, while the cognomen denoted the particular family. The agnomen was added on account of some particular event, as a further distinction. Thus, in the designation Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, Publius is the proenomen, Cornelius is the nomen, Scipio the cognomen, and Africanus the agnomen. Vicat. These several terms occur frequently in the Roman laws. See Cas. temp. Hardw. 286; 1 Tayl. 148. See Name; Surname.
Cognominal (a.) Of or pertaining to a cognomen; of the nature of a surname.
Cognominal (n.) One bearing the same name; a namesake. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Cognomination (n.) A cognomen or surname. [R.] -- Jer. Taylor.
Cognoscence (n.) Cognizance. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Cognoscenti (n. pl. ) of Cognoscente.
Cognoscente (n.) A connoisseur. -- Mason.
Cognoscente (n.) An expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts [syn: connoisseur, cognoscente].
Cognoscibility (n.) The quality of being cognoscible. -- Cudworth.
Cognoscible (a.) Capable of being known. "Matters intelligible and cognoscible." -- Sir M. Hale.
Cognoscible (a.) Liable to judicial investigation. -- Jer. Taylor.
Cognoscible (a.) Capable of being known [syn: knowable, cognizable, cognisable, cognoscible] [ant: unknowable].
Cognoscitive (a.) Having the power of knowing. [Obs.] "An innate cognoscitive power." -- Cudworth.
Cognovit (n.) (Law) An instrument in writing whereby a defendant in an action acknowledges a plaintiff's demand to be just. -- Mozley & W.
Cognovit, () contr. leading. A written confession of an action by a defendant, subscribed but not sealed, and authorizing the plaintiff to sign judgment and issue execution, usually for a sum named.
Cognovit, It is given after the action is brought to save expense.
Cognovit, It differs from a warrant of attorney, which is given before the commencement of any action, and is under seal. A cognovit actionem is an acknowledgment and confession of the plaintiff's cause of action against the defendant to be just and true. Vide 3 Ch. Pr. 664; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 8299.
Coguardian (n.) A joint guardian.
Cogue (n.) A small wooden vessel; a pail. [Scot.] -- Jamieson.
Cogware (n.) A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. -- Halliwell.
Cogwheel (n.) A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.
Cogwheel (n.) A toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion [syn: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel].
Cohabited (imp. & p. p.) of Cohabit.
Cohabiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cohabit.
Cohabit (v. i.) 同居 To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.
The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing. -- South.
Cohabit (v. i.) To dwell or live together as husband and wife.
The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit together, even after a voluntary separation has taken place between them. -- Bouvier.
Note: By the common law as existing in the United States, marriage is presumed when a man and woman cohabit permanently together, being reputed by those who know them to be husband and wife, and admitting the relationship. -- Wharton.
Cohabit (v.) Share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple [syn: cohabit, live together, shack up].
Cohabit (v.) [ I ] (Formal) （尤指未婚男女）同居 If two people, especially a man and woman who are not married, cohabit, they live together and have a sexual relationship.
// About 23 percent of men and women aged 25 to 34 told researchers they had previously cohabited with a partner without it leading to marriage.
// Cohabiting couples.
Cohabitant (n.) 同居者 One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country.
No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Cohabitation (n.) 同居 The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. -- Feltham.
Cohabitation (n.) (Law) The living together of a man and woman in supposed sexual relationship.
That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted. -- Lord Stowell.
Cohabitation (n.) The act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) Cohabitation. Living together.
Cohabitation (n.) The law presumes that husband and wife cohabit, even after a voluntary separation has taken place between them; but where there has been a divorce a mensa et thoro, or a sentence of separation, the presumption then arises that they have obeyed the sentence or decree, and do not live together.
Cohabitation (n.) A criminal cohabitation will not be presumed by the proof of a single act of criminal intercourse between a man and woman not married. 10 Mass. R. 153.
Cohabitation (n.) When a woman is proved to cohabit with a man and to assume his name with his consent, he will generally be responsible for her debts as if she had been his wife; 2 Esp. R. 637; 1 Campb. R. 245; this being presumptive evidence of marriage; B. N. P. 114; but this liability will continue only while they live together, unless she is actually his were. 4 Campb. R. 215.
Cohabitation (n.) In civil actions for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife, after the husband and wife have separated, the plaintiff will not in general be entitled to recover. 1 Esp. R. 16; S. C. 5 T. R. 357; Peake's Cas. 7, 39; sed vide 6 East, 248; 4 Esp. 39.
Cohabiter (n.) A cohabitant. -- Hobbes.
Cohabiter (n.) A person who cohabits (=lives with, usually in a sexual relationship) with another.
Coheir (n.) A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.
CO-HEIR. () One of several men among whom an inheritance is to be divided.
Coheiress (n.) A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.
Co-heiress. () A woman who inherits an estate in common with other women. A joint heiress.
Coheirship (n.) The state of being a coheir.
Coherald (n.) A joint herald.
Cohered (imp. & p. p.) of Cohere.
Cohering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cohere.
Cohere (a.) To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. -- Locke.
Cohere (a.) To be united or connected together in subordination to one purpose; to follow naturally and logically, as the parts of a discourse, or as arguments in a train of reasoning; to be logically consistent.
They have been inserted where they best seemed to cohere. -- Burke.
Cohere (a.) To suit; to agree; to fit. [Obs.]
Had time cohered with place, or place with wishing. -- Shak.
Syn: To cleave; unite; adhere; stick; suit; agree; fit; be consistent. Coherence
Cohere (v.) Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere" [syn: cling, cleave, adhere, stick, cohere].
Cohere (v.) Cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social groups".
Cohere (v.) Have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere".
Coherence (n.) 黏著；凝聚；統一；連貫性；一致性 Alt. of Coherency.
Coherency (n.) A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.
Coherency (n.) Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of philosophy; consecutiveness.
Coherence of discourse, and a direct tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in hand, are most eminently to be found in him. -- Locke.
Coherency (n.) The state of cohering.
Syn: cohesion, cohesiveness.
Coherence (n.) The state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] [ant: incoherence, incoherency].
Coherence (n.) Logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts [syn: coherence, coherency].
Coherent (a.) 一致的，協調的；（話語等）條理清楚的，連貫的 Sticking together; cleaving; as the parts of bodies; solid or fluid. -- Arbuthnot.
Coherent (a.) Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.
Coherent (a.) Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker. -- Watts.
Coherent (a.) Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant. [Obs.]
Instruct my daughter how she shall persever, That time and place, with this deceit so lawful, May prove coherent. -- Shak.
Coherent (a.) (Physics, Optics) Of or pertaining to electromagnetic waves that have a constant phase relationship with each other; having identical phase at all points; as, the coherent light produced by a laser.
Coherent (a.) Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts; "a coherent argument" [syn: coherent, consistent, logical, ordered] [ant: incoherent].
Coherent (a.) Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" [syn: coherent, logical, lucid].
Coherent (a.) (Physics) Of waves having a constant phase relation [ant: incoherent].
Coherent (a.) Sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs" [syn: coherent, tenacious].
Coherently (adv.) 條理清楚地；前後一致地 In a coherent manner.
Coherently (adv.) In a coherent manner; "she could not talk coherently after the accident" [ant: incoherently].
Cohesibility (n.) The state of being cohesible. -- Good.
Cohesible (a.) Capable of cohesion.
Cohesion (n.) 結合；凝聚；團結力；附著；【物】內聚力 The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Cohesion (n.) (Physics) That from of attraction by which the particles of a body are united throughout the mass, whether like or unlike; -- distinguished from adhesion, which unites bodies by their adjacent surfaces.
Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. -- Arbuthnot.
Cohesion (n.) Logical agreement and dependence; as, the cohesion of ideas. -- Locke.
Cohesion (n.) The state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] [ant: incoherence, incoherency].
Cohesion (n.) (Botany) The process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals).
Cohesion (n.) (Physics) the intermolecular force that holds together the molecules in a solid or liquid.
Cohesion Fund (n.) (ph.) [S] (Government, economics) （歐洲共同體的）區域經援 Money that the European Union uses to help development among its poorer members, especially in areas relating to transport and the environment.
Cohesive (a.) Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.
Cohesive (a.) Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.
Cohesive attraction. See under Attraction. -- Co*he"sive*ly, adv. -- Co*he"sive*ness, n.
Cohesive (a.) Causing cohesion; "a cohesive agent".
Cohesive (a.) Cohering or tending to cohere; well integrated; "a cohesive organization".
Cohibited (imp. & p. p.) of Cohibit.
Cohibiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cohibit.
Cohibit (v. t.) To restrain. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Cohibition (n.) Hindrance; restraint. [Obs.]
Cohobated (imp. & p. p.) of Cohobate.
Cohobating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cohobate.
Cohobate (v. t.) (Anc. Chem.) To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. -- Arbuthnot.
Cohobation (n.) (Anc. Chem.) The process of cohobating. -- Grew.
Cohorn (n.) (Mil.) See Coehorn.