c o i-r 
granted to the univerfify of Oxford, (no caufe being 
ftnvn to the contrary,) in Eafter term, 9 Geo. II. in the 
cale of Woodcocke and Brooke. ILardvj.z^i. 
Conufance muft be demanded before an imparlance, 
and the fame term the writ is returnable, after the de¬ 
fendant appears ; becaufe, till he appears there is no caufe 
in court, otherwife there would be a delay of juftice ; for 
if after imparlance, when the defendant has a day already 
allowed him, he would have two days, fince when the 
conulance is allowed, the franchife prefixes a day to both 
parties to appear before them: and it is the lord’s laches 
if he does not come fbon enough not to delay the parties. 
Gilb. Hijl. ofC. P. i 9 6. 
COGNISE'E, f in law, he to whom a fine In lands or 
tenements’ is acknowledged. Covucll. 
COG'NISOR, f in law, he that paffeth or acknow- 
ledgeth a fine in lands or tenements to another. Cowell. 
COGNl'TION, f [cognitio , Lat.] Knowledge; com¬ 
plete conviftion.—God, as he created all tilings, fo is he 
beyond and in them all; not only in power, as under his 
fubjefticn ; or in his pretence, as in his cognition ; but in 
their very effence, as in the foul of their cafualties. Brown. 
COGNITIO'NIBUS MITTEN'DIS, f. A writ to one 
of the king’s jufticOs of the common pleas, or other that 
hath power to take a fine, who having taken the fine de¬ 
fers to certify it, commanding him to certify. 
COGNITIVE, adj. [from cognitus, Lat.] Having the 
powercf knowing.—Unlefs the underfunding employ and 
exercife its cognitive or apprehenfive power about thefe 
terms, there can be no aftua) apprehenfion of them. South. 
COGNO MINAL, adj. [cognomen , Lat.] Having the 
fame name.—Nor do thofe animals more refemble the 
creatures on earth, than they, on earth the conftellations 
which pafs under animal names in heaven ; nor the dog- 
fifh atfea much more make out the dog of the land, than 
his cognominal or namefake in the heavens. Brovin. 
COGNOMINA'TION,^ [cognomen, Lat.] Afurname; 
the name of a family. A name added from any accident 
or quality.—Pompey deferved the name Great: Alex¬ 
ander, of the fame cog-nomination , was generaliffimo of 
Greece. Brow. 
COGNO'SCENCE,/ [cognofco, Lat.] Knowledge; the 
fate or aft of knowing. 
COGNO'SCIBLE, adj. [cognofco, Lat.] That may be 
known ; being the objeft of knowledge.—The fame that 
is faid for the redundance of matters intelligible and 
cognofcible in things natural, may be applied in things ar¬ 
tificial. Hale. 
COGNO'VIT ACTIO'NEM, /. is where a defendant 
acknowledges orconfeffesthe plaintiff’s caufe againft him 
to be juft and true; and, before or after blue, buffers 
judgment to be entered againft him without trial. And 
here the confellion generally extends no further than to 
what is contained in the declaration; but if the defend¬ 
ant will confefs more, he may. 1 Rol. 929. « 
COGOL'LA, a river of Spain, which runs into the 
Nagarella, in the country of Rioja. 
COGOLLU'DO, a town of Spain, in New Caftile : 
twenty miles weft of Siguenga. 
COGORE'TO, or Cogureto, a village of Italy, on 
the fea-coaft of Genoa, remarkable for being the native 
place of Chriftopher Columbus, the celebrated difeoverer 
of America. 
COGUE, f. A fmall cup or dram of brandy. A fmall 
wooden veffel or cup. 
To COGUE, v. a. To drink brandy. 
COG'WARE, f. A fort of coarfe cloth, made in di¬ 
vers parts of England, of which mention is made in the 
flat, j 3 Rich. II. c. 10. 
To COHA'BIT, v. n. [ cohabito, Lat.] To dwell with 
another in the fame place. To live together as hufband 
and wife.—He knew her not to be his own wife, and yet 
had a delign to cohabit with her as fuch. Fiddes. 
COHA'BITANT, f. An inhabitant of the fame place. 
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—-The epprefied Indians proteft againft that heaven, where 
the Spaniards are to be their cohabitants. Decay of Piety. 
COHABITA'TION, /. The aft or ftate of inhabiting 
the fame place with another. The ftate of living .toge¬ 
ther as married perfons.—Monfieur Brumars, at one hun¬ 
dred and two years, died for love of his wife, who was 
ninety-two at her death, after feventy years cohabitation. 
Tatlcr. —By the common law of Scotland, cohabitation 
for a year and a day, or a complete twelvemonth, is 
deemed equivalent to matrimony. 
COHAN'ZY, or C je sari a , a fmall river of North 
America, which rifes in Salem county, New Jerfey, and, 
running through Cumberland county, empties into Qela- 
vvare river oppofite the upper end of Bombay Hook. It 
is about thirty miles in length, and is navigable for vef¬ 
fel s of one hundred tons to Bridgetown, twenty miles 
from its mouth. 
COHAS'SET, a tovvnfhip of the American States, in' 
Norfolk county, Malfachuletts, which was incorporated 
in 1770. Cohaffet rocks, which have beftr fo fatal to 
many velfels, lie off this town, about a league from the 
ftiore. It is twenty-five miles fouth-eaft of Bolton; but 
in a ltraight line not above haif the diltance. 
COHE'IR, f. [cobares , Lat.] One of leveral among 
whom an inheritance is divided.—Married perfons, and 
widows, and virgins, are all coheirs in the inheritance of 
Jefus, if they live within the laws of their eltate. Taylor. 
COHE'IRESS, f. A woman who has an equal (hare of 
an inheritance with'other women. 
To COHE'RE, v.n. [ coheereo , Lat.] To flick together; 
to hold fait one to another, as parts of the fame mals.— 
We find that the force, whereby bodies cohere, is very 
much greater when they come to immediate contaft, than 
when they are at ever id fmall a finite diltance. Cbeyue. 
None want a place; for all, their centre found, 
Hung to the gqddefs, and coher'd around ; 
Nut clofer, orb in orb conglob’d, are leen 
The buzzing bees about their dufley queen. Pops. 
To be well connefted; to follow regularly in the order 
of difeourie. Tofuit; to fit; to be fitted to. To agree. 
COHE'RENCE, or Coherency, f. [ coharentia , Lat.] 
That ftate of bodies in which their parts are joined to¬ 
gether, from what caufe foever it proceeds, fo that they 
refift divuifion and feparation ; nor can be feparated by 
the fame force by which they might be fimpiy moved, or, 
being only laid upon one 1 another,.might be parted again. 
Quincy. —The preffure of the air will not explain, nor can 
be a caufe of, the coherence of the particles oi air them- 
felves. Locke. —Matter is either fluid or folid; words that 
may comprehend the middle degrees between extreme 
fixednels and coherency, and the molt rapid inteftine mo¬ 
tion. Beptley.— Connection; dependency ; the relation of 
parts or things one .to another.—Why between fermons 
and faith fliould there be ordinarily that coherence, which 
caufes have with their ufual effects ? Hooker. —The tex¬ 
ture of a difeourfe, by which one part follows another 
regularly and naturally. Confiftency in reafoning, or 
relating, fo that one part of the dilcourfe does not de- 
ftroy or contradict the reft.— Coherence of difeourfe, and a 
direft tendency of all the parts of it to the argument in 
hand, are molt eminently to be found in St. Paul.' Locke. 
COHE'RENT, adj. [cobar ens, Lat.J Sticking together, 
fo as to refift feparation : 
Where all muft fall, or hot coherent be ; 
And all that rifes, rife in due degree. Pope. 
Connefted; united.-—The mind proceeds from the know¬ 
ledge it: Hands polTdied of already, to that which lies 
next, and is coherent to it, and fo on to what it aims at. 
Locke. —Suitable to lomething elfe ; regularly adapted : 
Inftruft my daughter, 
That time and place, with this deceit fo lawful, 
May prove Cobrr.nU Shakefpeare. 
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