cognize

Etymology

Back-formation from cognizance.

verb

1. To know, perceive, or become aware of.
   [T]hey must possess organs of sight—some method of cognizing their environment—akin to that of vision in man. 1934, George Henry Weiss, The Mentanicals
2. To make into an object of cognition (the process of acquiring knowledge through thought); to cogitate.
   Cognizing about mind is a ubiquitous human activity; we consistently construe each other as agents undertaking intentional action based on our underlying beliefs and desires (and not as "bags of skin stuffed into pieces of cloth") 2011, Usha Goswami, The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development
   “Thinking a lot” also involves other types of cognizing as well, such as cognizing about depressive themes such as being left by a wife for another man or being separated from relatives. 2015, Devon E. Hinton, Byron J. Good, Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective
   The act of consciously knowing about consciousness is the act of the brain mirroring its own organizations, cognizing about its own cognizing. 2016, Robbie Davis-Floyd, P. Sven Arvidson, Intuition: The Inside Story: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, page 28