omnicognizant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + cognizant.
Senses: examples: text: In the first half of the nineteenth century, the policy instituted under the early Ch’ien-lung reforms of Hupeh Governor Yen Ssu-sheng governed the selection and appointment of the omnicognizant Hankow brokers.
ref: 1984, William T[ownsend] Rowe, “The State and Commerce”, in Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796–1889, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, part I (The Emporium), page 189:
text: The omnicognizant Howard Haycraft, in his Murder for Pleasure, wrote two pages on this very subject.
ref: 1993, Marilis Hornidge, “Backgrounders”, in “Traditional Mysteries”, in Ed Gorman, Martin H[arry] Greenberg, Larry Segriff, Jon L[inn] Breen, editors, The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader’s Indispensable Companion, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 114, column 1:
text: In the opening phase, the family perceives the therapist as the healer and the mediator, and as being omnicognizant.
ref: 1993, Richard Sloves, Karen Belinger Peterlin, “Family Meeting”, in “Where in the World is . . . My Father? A Time-Limited Play Therapy”, in Terry Kottman, Charles Schaefer, editors, Play Therapy in Action: A Casebook for Practitioners, Northvale, N.J.: Jason Aronson Inc., →ISBN, page 328:
text: He was an omnipresent god, although only in a small area. And he was omnicognizant, but just enough to know that while he did indeed know everything it wasn't the whole Everything, just the part of it that applied to his island.
ref: 1998, Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent (Discworld; 22), New York, N.Y.: HarperPrism, published March 1999, →ISBN, page 100:
text: The nation must concede to their Prophet as Allah hath chosen him for Them. He hath chosen Mohammed by His knowledge as He is the omniscient and the omnicognizant.
ref: 1999, Mohammad Redha, interpreted by Mohammad Agha, “Abdullah Ibn Abbas’s reply to Mou’awya’s speech”, in Al-Hasan and al-Hussein: The Two Grandsons of the Messenger of Allah, Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah, →ISBN, page 54:
text: Throughout the history of mankind, people of different religions and cultures have had their own understanding of God. Some describe God as omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-seeing), omnicognizant (all-knowing), and omnipresent (present-in-everything).
ref: 2000, Shakuntala Modi, “Presence of God in the Universe”, in Memories of God and Creation: Remembering from the Subconscious Mind, Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 20:
text: Mostly I’ll try to keep myself out of this story, since I don’t really have too awful much to do with the bulk of the action, though I guess I’ll address the issue of who I am and how I got to be omnicognizant and all that later, if it seems warranted.
ref: 2011, Harrison Geillor, “Pretty Much Dusk, More or Less”, in The Twilight of Lake Woebegotten, San Francisco, Calif.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Dude, you’re omniscient and omnicognizant. Right? You’re all-seeing, as long as you bother to look?
ref: 2015, T[imothy] A[aron] Pratt, “The Limits of Omniscience”, in Queen of Nothing (Marla Mason; 9), West Warwick, R.I.: The Merry Blacksmith Press, →ISBN, page 24:
text: A marriage of the demon and the chronicler would make a couple that would know all there is to know about the state of the world at any time past, present, and future. And yet this omnicognizant pair would be unable to write history.
ref: 2017, Tor Egil Førland, “Insulation”, in “Introduction: Values, Objectivity, and Explanation for a Postfoundational Time”, in Values, Objectivity, and Explanation in Historiography (Routledge Approaches to History; 21), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Aware of everything.
Related terms: omnicognizance