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Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 22, 2009cognoscente \kon-yuh-SHEN-tee; kog-nuh-; -SEN-\, noun: A person with special knowledge of a subject; a connoisseur. However, I thought it well to acquaint myself with the latest scientific thinking, so as not to write a tale that would embarrass me among the cognoscenti. In the early 1600s, however, beliefs that decried curiosity and restricted information about the "secrets" of nature to a handful of cognoscenti were under attack. Greenspan, to his credit, tells the truth about what he does, but until now, he has done it in a way that only the cognoscenti can understand. Cognoscente derives from the Obsolete Italian, from Latin cognoscens, cognoscent-, present participle of cognoscere, "to know." | |||||||||
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