All 4 Uses of
cogent
in
Moby Dick
- But the last term of the definition is still more cogent, as coupled with the first.†
Chpt 31-33 *cogent = powerfully persuasive
- The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is indisputable; and that the supposition founded upon it is reasonable and true, seems the more cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in HAVING HIS SPOUTINGS OUT, as the fishermen phrase it.†
Chpt 85-87
- And by the soundest commentators this has ever been held a cogent argument in such matters.†
Chpt 88-90
- This is a cogent vice thou hast here, carpenter; let me feel its grip once.†
Chpt 106-108