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Frank in a recognisance, I think they call it — a hard word compounded of re and cognosco; but it differs in its meaning from the use of the simple, as many other compounds do.
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Domîe i [hes] u [christ] e. ego cognosco me graui [ter] peccasse.
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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Quoniam iniquitatem meam ego cognosco: et peccatum meum contra me est semper.
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Show the man that took it. quid est? quid ridetis? novi omnes, scio fures esse hic complures, qui vestitu et creta occultant sese atque sedent quasi sint frugi. quid ais tu? tibi credere certum est, nam esse bonum ex voltu cognosco. hem, nemo habet horum? occidisti. dic igitur, quis habet? nescis?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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So they apprehended him and carried him before the justice: I remember it was Justice Willoughby, of Noyle, a very worthy good gentleman; and he committed him to prison, and bound Frank in a recognisance, I think they call ita hard word compounded of re and cognosco; but it differs in its meaning from the use of the simple, as many other compounds do.
XI. In Which the Man of the Hill Begins to Relate His History. Book VIII 1917
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* Ego imperium huius saeculi non cognosco: [1603] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Tum ego: "Mira quidem," inquam, "et concessu difficilis inlatio, sed his eam quae prius concessa sunt nimium conuenire cognosco."
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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All the inventions which he enumerates have, he declares, been actually made in ancient times, with the exception of a flying-machine (instrumentum volandi quod non vidi nec hominem qui vidisset cognovi, sed sapientem qui hoc artificium excogitavit explere cognosco).
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894
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Oves meae vocem meam audiunt, et ego cognosco eas, et sequuntur me, et ego vitam aeternam do eis.
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Verbi Dei legitima vel sincera praedicatio, prout nobis est tradita in libris Prophetarum et Apostolorum, qui omnes ad Christum deducunt, qui in Evangelio dixit: Oves meae vocem meam audiunt, et ego cognosco eas, et sequuntur me, et ego vitam aeternam do eis.
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