Cognizance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COGNIZANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• knowledge or notice, judicial or private, also COGNISANCE
• knowledge or awareness
• the action of taking judicial notice.
• a distinctive emblem or badge formerly worn by retainers of a noble house.
• Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
• Recollection; recognition.
• Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.
• The hearing a matter judicially.
• An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.
• 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.
• 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.
• having knowledge of
• range of what one can know or understand
• range or scope of what is perceived
• knowledge or notice, judicial or private
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a distinguishing mark or emblem (as a heraldic bearing)

Words related to COGNIZANCE

cognizances25

Words that contain COGNIZANCE

cognizances25 incognizance26 recognizance26 incognizances27 recognizances27

How to use COGNIZANCE in a sentence

• During the few minutes while the seconds were busy pacing the course and arranging for the signal, I had no cognizance of the world around me.
• It is fitting for the Church at large that she should in each age and country have a suitable apologetic, taking cognizance of the latest developments of profane knowledge.
• The spiritual courts decided matters of great importance, and took cognizance of cases which were out of the jurisdiction of temporal courts.
• It disregarded minor matters, but took cognizance of all judicial debates which concerned religion, the King, or the State.
• The power of constituting inferior courts is evidently calculated to obviate the necessity of having recourse to the Supreme Court in every case of federal cognizance.
• It was his cognizance in the field of battle and at the tournament.
• Coligny, he said, had not suggested the project to him, but had cognizance of it, and had not attempted to deter him.
• The committee took cognizance of all affairs concerning the general welfare of the community.
• Now all offences, whether great or trifling, are to be taken cognizance of by the magistrate or jury, and hence they become notorious.
• I shall therefore, in conclusion, crave the liberty of producing one which has lately come under my own cognizance.
• The business from which we withdraw our cognizance, is not above our abilities, but below our notice.
• The law took cognizance of these facts, when, some years later, M.
• Then wilt thou, Cuthbert Trevlyn, whose name has already been whispered abroad as one having cognizance of this matter, be handed over to the tender mercies of the law.
• ORGANIZATION AND COSTS At this point it becomes necessary to take cognizance of certain administrative factors which have a marked bearing on the problem.
• These were the largest political organizations of which he had personal cognizance.
• They had cognizance of cases on appeal, cases of nobility, and cases regarding the inheritance of entailed property.
• It was the beginning of the first state in the world which took no cognizance whatever of religious belief, so long as it did not interfere with civil peace.
• But the cognizance of heretics and the determination of their punishment remained in the hands of secular magistrates.
• As the five senses take no cognizance of Soul, so they take no cognizance of God.
• It is upon this principle that their laws take no cognizance of the distinction between a wilful murder and what we term manslaughter.
• They can only take cognizance of it in vindication of their member.
• They did take cognizance of it after the manner peculiar to them.
• We are quiet people all, and none here wear the cognizance of Douglas or Albany.
• If you love me, arrest him before the law takes cognizance of this wild deed.
• Nothing was too minute to escape their cognizance, and a parish sat in judgment on the affairs of all who belonged to it.
• Then they took cognizance of the state of affairs in Spain, and found there had been a great deficiency in the English troops at the battle of Almanza.
• THE LORDS TAKE COGNIZANCE OF A LIBEL AGAINST THE SCOTS.
• The time has come when this great nation should take national cognizance of this problem.
• So likewise that which is necessary is inquiry into the condition of the people, and cognizance of the deeds and circumstances of each one of the different classes.
• Though man descends from on high into these lower worlds, it is only through that descent that a full cognizance of the higher worlds is developed in him.
• Within that Pale were a few thousand English settlers, and of them alone did the law take cognizance.
• Parliament takes no cognizance of whether they love each other or not.
• Complaints became so bitter that even the higher church authorities were forced to take cognizance of the practices.
• Now he must go back once more to try to fill, with science, a gap of which science could never take cognizance.
• I do not know whether they have been suppressed or not, but the laws for the protection of animals ought to take cognizance of them.
• It takes cognizance of course of the concerns of a greater portion of population, and, as the name implies, for a greater extent of time.

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