Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman law, the attorney or advocate of a party to a private suit; one who took up the defense of a person present in court.
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Examples
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The emperor sent an official named Marcellinus, an excellent Christian, to preside as cognitor at the conference.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The cognitor summed up in favor of the Catholic bishops.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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He interfered, it is true, to annul the election of Philip of Suabia and to confirm Otto in the imperial dignity, but he was at pains to point out that his legate was only a denunciator, or declarer of worthiness, not a cognitor or elector.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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"Si igitur cognitor," ait, "resideres, cui supplicium inferendum putares, eine qui fecisset an qui pertulisset iniuriam?"
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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* [1354] Sicut beata Sus. dicit, Deus æternus absconditorum cognitor, sciens omnia,
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SEYFART, caufarum oiilitaruiin cognitor Halae Magdeburgicae, qui et Ranfiäi vitae et fcriptorum notitiam adiecil.
Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit Burcard Gotthelff Struve 1782
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It is probable, too, that” Deum qui absconsa manifestat “(IV.xxxi. 2) may be a reminiscence of the phrase ho tōn kruptōn gnōstēs in v. 42; and still more probably perhaps” qui est absconsorum cognitor “in IV.xxxv. 2 has its origin in this same verse.
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103 Ubi inquirit cognitor, utrum, cum mandaverint, exeant & dent locum acturis.
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169 Ubi cognitor jubet, volentibus legere Donati - ftis ab officio potius, quae legenda funt, re - citari.
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