Noun : The guests took cognizance of the snide remark. ,Such understanding is beyond his cognizance.    From Dictionary.com. 

Clearly, under the law, the agency that has cognizance is the NBDB.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Great Book Blockade of 2009 (Updated 7 May) (with BDAP Paper) « BAHAY TALINHAGA] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference

Gnosis expresses the idea of cognizance by intuition, 771-m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference

"Foi!" said Mr. Latz, by way of -- somewhat unduly perhaps -- expressing his own kind of cognizance of the scented trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

If a rule has been broken of course I must take cognizance of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

The conscious mind takes cognizance of the fact and feels distress.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference

For the same reason laws may even take cognizance of men's thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

Anchises engaged in taking cognizance of the ghosts that are to animate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

Poles; the German Austrians refused to take cognizance of events outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

The United States Senate was forced to take cognizance of this condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

The government, however, has no cognizance of those who are here illegally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of What 'Shadows'?] Reference

Claims not contained in this list were not to be taken cognizance of; nor was the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

I would not take cognizance of such matters, except in cases of absolute necessity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

When he again turned to her his face and manner expressed no further cognizance of her reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

If one is an automobilist he has all the more reason to take cognizance of their deficiencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

But the state of Pennsylvania, where I live, takes no cognizance of my diminishing visual acuity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take Away My License] Reference

Such advice takes cognizance of the self-love of the individual, and is not self-love reasonable?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

Nor is there even a cognizance of causality -- of events happening because of what came before them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweeping History Under The Carpet] Reference

Consciousness is limited, in that it does not always take cognizance of all the existing sensations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

It was customary at these audiences, for the emperor to take cognizance of all the affairs of police.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.] Reference

We take cognizance of that higher cone with which the mundane affairs of the lower cone are closely connected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference

It is not merely of the living human beings which compose a community that the social will takes cognizance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

No. 9, the total number of lepers, of whom the Insular Government had obtained cognizance, up to December 31, 1903, was 3,343.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

But the erecting a court solely for the purpose of taking cognizance of them, suggests an idea that they were many and various.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

A national emblem of the independent Duchy of Lorraine for centuries, and even now a distinctive cognizance of the Border Province of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference

That is, shall deserve to be punished by that lesser tribunal among the Jews, called the Judgment, which took cognizance of such crimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision] Reference

Only very rarely, however, has legal cognizance been taken of this evil, though it may sometimes be included under the general charge of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference

Court of Parliament took cognizance only of crimes committed by Peers of the realm, upon indictments previously found in the inferior Courts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

It was therefore resolved by Lockhart, that the correspondence between the Chevalier and Argyle should be contrived without Mar's cognizance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference

If Mr. Justice Foucher was accused of any such offence, the ordinary tribunals of the country could take cognizance of it and inflict punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

The benchers appear to take cognizance of any kind of misconduct, whether professional or not, which they may deem unworthy of the rank of barrister.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference