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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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"Cognizance" Quotes from Famous Books



... to eternal life is probable, but that such a resurrection has actually taken place. This basis of historical fact, which is one of the great peculiarities of Christianity, is strictly within the cognizance of the understanding; and in the writings of St. John and St. Paul we have that full and perfect evidence of it which the strictest laws ...
— The Christian Life - Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps • Thomas Arnold
... much alarmed at this expression, as fearing it imported his distresses had drove him to be guilty of some crime of which the law takes cognizance.—'I hope,' said he, 'your having signed a contract with an abandoned prostitute, is the ...
— Life's Progress Through The Passions - Or, The Adventures of Natura • Eliza Fowler Haywood
... the baby and to bring up children are perennial topics for magazines with a national circulation. Insurance companies with a national constituency prescribe physical tests for all classes. Government takes cognizance of the physical interest of all its citizens, and passes through Congress pure-food and pure-drug acts. National societies of a voluntary nature also cater to health and happiness. Long-named organizations exist for moral prophylaxis ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe
... corpus by statute 16 Car. I. c. 10. as much as if committed by an ordinary justice of the peace. And, by the same statute, the court of starchamber, and the court of requests, both of which consisted of privy counsellors, were dissolved; and it was declared illegal for them to take cognizance of any matter of property, belonging to the subjects of this kingdom. But, in plantation or admiralty causes, which arise out of the jurisdiction of this kingdom, and in matters of lunacy and ideocy (being a special flower of the prerogative) with regard to these, although ...
— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone
... pains to exonerate Hook from a charge of robbery, when he was avowedly guilty of as bad a sin, of which the law took no cognizance, and which society forgave far more easily than it could have done for robbing the State? Soon after his return from the Mauritius, he took lodgings in the cheap, but unfashionable neighbourhood of Somers Town. Here, ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton


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