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Example sentences for "cognizance"

Lexicographically close words:
cognitionis; cognitions; cognitive; cognitum; cognizable; cognizant; cognize; cognized; cognizes; cognizing
  1. It is decided that the Bishops shall take cognizance of these causes.

  2. Who," said one of these gallants, "who is that comely young fellow just below us, with the Nevile cognizance of the Bull on his hat?

  3. And with a princely courtesy of mien and smile, Lord Montagu turned to the young man he had noticed as wearing the cognizance of the First House in England.

  4. And so, wearing the Lancastrian Prince of Wales's cognizance of the ostrich feather, crying out as they marched, "Long live King Henry!

  5. Warwick, in the broad space which his arm had made around him in the carnage, reined in as he saw the foe and recognized the grisly cognizance and scarlet mantle of his godson.

  6. The shining star of Oxford, returning from the pursuit, had been mistaken for Edward's cognizance of the sun.

  7. It is fitting in a review of his life that one take cognizance of his many good deeds.

  8. Of course it could exercise no jurisdiction over the heretic English allies; it has left no traces of its activity and was replaced by a revival of the episcopal cognizance of heresy.

  9. In criminal cases, the Inquisition had sole cognizance with respect to officials, their servants and families and to familiars but not to their wives, children and servants.

  10. Inquisitors shall not have cognizance of contracts between outsiders because of a clause submitting them to the fuero, nor of cases of donations or cession to officials or familiars.

  11. As regards the extension of jurisdiction over subjects unconnected with heresy, the Inquisition was not in future to take cognizance of usury, bigamy, blasphemy, and sorcery except in cases inferring erroneous belief.

  12. Philip IV had the weakness to submit to these extravagant claims, in 1658, and to decide that the Suprema alone had cognizance in such matters.

  13. No appeals from its tribunals were to be entertained, for the only appeal lay to the Suprema, which would redress any wrong, for it, by delegation from the crown and the Holy See, had exclusive cognizance of such matters.

  14. First among these pictorial mementoes should be noticed the well-known cognizance of the Prince of Wales, the Ostrich Feathers, the popular origin of which is known to every schoolboy.

  15. In memory of this exploit his successors bore as their cognizance a silver staff in a shield of sable.

  16. Standards, as the necessary distinctions of contending parties on the battle-field, must be nearly or quite as antient as war itself; and every such mark of distinction would readily become a national cognizance both in war and peace.

  17. The court and grand jury stood and saw the affray, and heard the mob threaten Markham's life, by all the oaths they could invent, but they took no cognizance of it.

  18. Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.

  19. This is a subject that officially comes under your cognizance as Minister, and it would be consistent that you expostulated with them upon the Case.

  20. Rafn and other extreme advocates of the Norse discovery have made as much as they could of the supposition of Columbus's cognizance of the Norse voyages.

  21. Not of least interest among them was the cognizance of new races of men, and new revelations in the animal and physical kingdoms, while the question of their origins pressed very soon on the theological and scientific sense of the age.

  22. An important use of the sympathetic nerve is to form a communication of one part of the system with another, so that one organ can take cognizance of the condition of every other, and act accordingly.

  23. This organ, although it takes cognizance of every sensation, is, of itself, but slightly sensible.

  24. On the other hand, a structural or functional disease of the brain may prevent that organ from taking cognizance of the sensations of the stomach, when the system actually requires nourishment.

  25. And it is to be noted, that this Court has cognizance of all pleas, where the amount sued for does not exceed 501.

  26. The enforcement of these is left entirely to the magistracy, who assemble weekly in the different towns throughout the colony, and take cognizance of all infractions, as well of the colonial as of the criminal code.

  27. The Court of Vice Admiralty consists of the Judge Advocate, and takes cognizance of captures, salvages, and such other matters of dispute as arise on the high seas; but it has no criminal jurisdiction.

  28. All causes for a higher amount, and all criminal offences beyond the cognizance of the bench of magistrates, are removed, the former before the Supreme Court, and the latter before the Court of Criminal Judicature at Port Jackson.

  29. Technically, he was uncondemned; his sole guilty spot was in thought rather than deed, and cognizance of it unshared by others.

  30. But whenever they are able to attend to business, let them be as accommodating as though they had cognizance of it from before, and let them not hinder public affairs on the score of not having had to do with them.

  31. Even without any direct communication from Japan, the Peking Court had cognizance of Hideyoshi's intentions.

  32. Oye no Hiromoto, who had cognizance of the plot, hid his guilty knowledge by offering counsels of caution.

  33. No sooner did this come to the cognizance of Nobukatsu than he caused these three retainers to be assassinated, and applied to Ieyasu for assistance, Ieyasu consented.

  34. As for slaves, being merely a part of their proprietor's property like any other goods and chattels, the law took no cognizance of them.

  35. Such being the case, the great group now under notice came under the cognizance of the two American philologues, whose important labours have already been noticed, by whom it has been denominated Tsihaili-Selish.

  36. At this we can arrive by taking cognizance of a second element of metre beyond that of quantity.

  37. In the Foretime, even to the germ of Being, Nothing appears of shape to indicate That cognizance has marshalled things terrene, Or will [such is my thinking] in my span.

  38. Cognizance of the more or less trivial utterances of individuals continued to the last and formed an increasing portion of inquisitorial business as Judaism gradually disappeared.

  39. A case occurring in 1513 suggests ample justification for this struggle to prevent the Inquisition from acquiring cognizance of bigamy.

  40. And we exhort and order all confessors to admonish their penitents, whom they understand to have been solicited, of the obligation to denounce the solicitors to this Holy Office, which has exclusive cognizance of this crime.

  41. In 1552, Simancas asserts that inquisitors have no cognizance of questions arising from usury, but must leave them to the Ordinaries, for usurers are not moved by erroneous belief, but by the desire for sordid gains.

  42. Yet these were by no means unknown to the Roman Holy Office, which took cognizance of them when brought to its notice.

  43. To him the Suprema accordingly wrote, asserting the exclusive cognizance of the Inquisition and requiring him to deliver to the tribunal any prisoners whom he had arrested.

  44. As is often the case with the gropings of a great mind, the idea contains the true principle of the explanation, although it fails as an explanation from not being in a position to take sufficient cognizance of all the facts.

  45. For if we contemplate our own mind, we have an immediate cognizance of a certain flow of thoughts or feelings, which are the most ultimate things, and indeed the only things, of which we are cognisant.

  46. But if we contemplate mind in other persons or organisms, we have no such immediate cognizance of thoughts or feelings.

  47. In this respect an offence of this description differs from most of the offences which come under the cognizance of a court of criminal jurisdiction.

  48. I am afraid there are too many statutes which speak of war with France, for the Judges to allow themselves not to have cognizance of that objection.

  49. Furthermore, he ordained that this worshipful guild which did so much towards encouraging cleanly habits should hold as its crest or cognizance within a garland argent and azure, a kingfisher proper.

  50. A prodigious step in power was made by assuming the cognizance of marriage, and the determination of the numberless questions connected with it.

  51. Perhaps even a greater power accrued from its assumption of the cognizance of wills, and of questions respecting the testamentary disposal of property.

  52. One salient object of this amiable habit was that, as he put it, “my children may see their father, and take cognizance of my state of health and my pursuits.

  53. Now, as all {50} human deeds and experience are taken cognizance of in the great day of judgment, it must be admitted that sufferings of the kind just mentioned will be included in the account.

  54. Moreover, we, the subjects of this creation, are so constituted that we are conscious of, and can ourselves take cognizance of, the means by which it is effected.


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    Other words:
    acknowledgment; appreciation; attention; awareness; benediction; cognizance; consciousness; credit; device; due; familiarity; grace; heed; hymn; insight; mark; memory; mind; note; notice; observance; observation; paean; perception; praise; realization; recognition; regard; remark; right; sense; sensibility; thanks; thanksgiving