Meanings
- not comparableAware of everything.
The omnicognizant Howard Haycraft, in his Murder for Pleasure, wrote two pages on this very subject.
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 15 more examples
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.
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 189In the opening phase, the family perceives the therapist as the healer and the mediator, and as being omnicognizant.
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 328He 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.
1998, Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent (Discworld; 22), New York, N.Y.: HarperPrism, published March 1999, →ISBN, page 100The 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.
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 54Throughout 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).
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
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