cognizance
IPA: kˈɑgnʌzʌns
noun
- An emblem, badge or device, used as a distinguishing mark by the body of retainers of a royal or noble house.
- Notice or awareness.
- Jurisdiction.
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Examples of "cognizance" in Sentences
- Children improve cognizance as they grow up.
- Almighty God will certainly take cognizance of it.
- Consciousness is the cognizance of light or energy.
- But, Gnanapiti does not want to take cognizance of it.
- Some greater cognizance of the work of Robert Sternberg.
- Gnosis expresses the idea of cognizance by intuition, 771-m.
- The most important factor for this program was culture cognizance.
- Clearly, under the law, the agency that has cognizance is the NBDB.
- "Foi!" said Mr. Latz, by way of -- somewhat unduly perhaps -- expressing his own kind of cognizance of the scented trail.
- However, we have here much the same management of Paul's case as we had in the foregoing chapter; cognizance is here taken of it, I.
- It is also the number of the _gnosis_, a word adopted in lieu of _Science_, and expressing only the idea of cognizance by intuition.
- The first who came under his cognizance was a poor fellow just freed of a fever, which bad weakened him so much that he could hardly stand.
- The lesson is that the government's jurisdiction ("cognizance") over the church is limited, as civil government is without authority to actively support (or interfere with internal matters of) organized religion, all to the mutual benefit of church and state.
- Any kind of cognizance of an indescribable excess in the joy of the bath, any kind of ardour or thirst which perpetually impels the soul out of night into the morning, and out of gloom, out of "affliction" into clearness, brightness, depth, and refinement: -- just as much as such a tendency DISTINGUISHES -- it is a noble tendency -- it also
- But I tell you those that will do so, and that will not make restitution when they have done wrong, or taken away their neighbor's goods, they are not in the livery of Christ, they are not his servants; let them go as they will in this world, yet for all that they are foul and filthy enough before God; they stink before His face; and therefore they shall be cast from His presence into everlasting fire; this shall be all their good cheer that they shall have, because they have not the livery of Christ, nor His cognizance, which is love.
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