cognizance

Significado de cognizance

n.

Conhecimento, insí­gnia, jurisdição.

n.

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

n.

awareness, consciousness, cognisance, knowingness, knowing generic term, incognizance antonym noun, ken, knowing generic term noun, perception generic term

Vogais: oiae

Consoantes: cgnznc

Palavras Parecidas

cognisance, connusance, conscience, consonance, cognoscence, connascence, common nuisance, canonizing, cinchonize, consigning.