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n. Conscious knowledge or recognition; awareness.

n. The range of what one can know or understand.

n. Observance; notice: We will take cognizance of your objections at the proper time.

n. Law Acknowledgment, recognition, or jurisdiction; the assumption of jurisdiction in a case.

n. Heraldry A crest or badge worn to distinguish the bearer.

n. An emblem, badge or device, used as a distinguishing mark by the body of retainers of a royal or noble house.

n. Notice or awareness.

n. Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.

n. Recollection; recognition.

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n. Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies.

n. The hearing a matter judicially.

n. An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. Knowledge or notice; perception; observation: now chiefly in the phrase take cognizance.

n. In law: The exercise of jurisdiction; a taking of authoritative notice, as of a cause.

n. Acknowledgment; admission, as a plea admitting the fact alleged in the declaration; a fine sur conusance de droit.

n. A plea in replevin, that defendant holds the goods in the right of another as his bailiff or servant. See avowry.

n. Any badge borne to facilitate recognition.

n. In heraldry, the armorial surcoat, or the crest, when worn, as being the only means by which a man in complete armor could be recognized.

n. Also spelled cognisance.

n. range of what one can know or understand

n. range or scope of what is perceived

n. having knowledge of

"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."

knowing    perception   

claiming conusance   

recognizance   

perception    observation    recollection    recognition    awareness    intelligence    notice    jurisdiction    badger   

cognisance    jurisdiction    heinousness