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Cognizance   /kˈɑgnəzəns/   Listen
noun
Cognizance  n.  
1.
Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation. "Within the cognizance and lying under the control of their divine Governor."
2.
Recollection; recognition. "Who, soon as on that knight his eye did glance, Eftsoones of him had perfect cognizance."
3.
(Law)
(a)
Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.
(b)
The hearing a matter judicially.
(c)
An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done. (Eng.)
(d)
A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another. (Eng.)
4.
The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known. "Wearing the liveries and cognizance of their master." "This pale and angry rose, As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate."





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... in the duel, and his money being almost spent, he returned to Paris, and was also put under an arrest till the affair was made up by the interposition of the duke of Berwick, under whose cognizance it properly came as Marshal ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. IV • Theophilus Cibber
... substitutes for precise knowledge and technical skill. Hence he himself could never be sure that his decision, however carefully worked out, would be final, seeing that in June facts might come to his cognizance with which five months' investigations had left him unacquainted. This incertitude about the elements of the problem intensified the ingrained hesitancy that had characterized his entire public career and warped his judgment effectually. The only approach to a ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon
... the principal sense-organs of the head. And at this stage the light-perceiving directive eye has developed into a form-perceiving, eidoscopic organ. The eye was short of range and its images were perhaps rude and imperfect, but it was a visual eye and had vast possibilities. The animal is taking cognizance of ever more subtle elements in its environment. Perhaps it is not too much to say that the eidoscopic eye first awakened the slumbering animal mind, for its reflex effect upon the supra-oesophageal ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler
... moving, high-heeled boots and gaiters, I catch a glimpse of the naked human foot. Nimbly it scuffs along, the toes spread, the sides flatten, the heel protrudes; it grasps the curbing, or bends to the form of the uneven surfaces,—a thing sensuous and alive, that seems to take cognizance of whatever it touches or passes. How primitive and uncivil it looks in such company,—a real barbarian in the parlor! We are so unused to the human anatomy, to simple, unadorned nature, that it looks a little repulsive; but it is beautiful for all that. Though it be a black foot ...
— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs
... these situations; and, having myself the same view of the case, I applied to the Council to be informed of the names of the present Scientific Advisers. But although they remonstrated against the PRINCIPLE, they replied that they had "NO COGNIZANCE" of the fact. ...
— Decline of Science in England • Charles Babbage


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