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cog•no•vit
(kog nō′vit),USA pronunciation n.
- [Law.]an acknowledgment or confession by a defendant that the plaintiff's cause, or part of it, is just, wherefore the defendant, to save expense, permits judgment to be entered without trial.
- Latin: 3rd pers. singular perfect of cognōscere to recognize; see cognizance
- 1755–65