cognizance
kog nuh zuhns
- n having knowledge of
- n range of what one can know or understand
- n range or scope of what is perceived
- The court, taking cognizance of the problems involved in the integration of the school systems concerned, put over until the next term, beginning October, the formulation of .
- The state takes no cognizance of private sin until it becomes a public crime.
- Madison said that religion is ''not within the cognizance of civil government.