Any man and woman are capable of marrying, subject to certain disabilities, some of which are said to be canonical as having been formerly under the cognisance of the ecclesiastical courts, others civil.
It assumes the personal cognisance and interference in everything by the occupant of the Throne.
But it was bravely held that the University had no cognisance of the personal opinions of any professor.
A falling wall crushes passengers without regard to virtue or vice;[907] blind forces take no cognisance of morality.
Bergson, have proposed to admit that by direct comprehension we have cognisance of the objects without mystery and as they are.
I do not think we should admit in principle, as do many philosophers, that "we take no cognisance save of relations.
Finally, the internal or external character of events, which might be called their geographical position, is a characteristic which has no influence upon the method destined to take cognisance of it.
In a recollection there is, in like manner, a certain image of the past and the fact consisting in the taking cognisance of this image.
Questioned, if she knew that any other persons had said or done anything which came under the cognisance of the Holy Office.
He declared that he possessed many books, and was not afraid of the Inquisition, for he had already been engaged in some disputes relative to a woman, which had come under the cognisance of the Holy Tribunal, or some of the officers.
Questioned, if he knew that any person or persons had said there was no Hell nor Purgatory, or made any other assertion which came under the cognisance of the Holy Office.
Villiers was of opinion that the executions in these cases, having been ordered by properly constituted Court Martial of the Boers' forces after due trial, did not fall under the cognisance of your Commissioners.
Waggon-loads of slaves have been conveyed from one end of the country to the other for sale, and that with the cognisance of, and for the direct advantage of, the highest officials of the land.
Actions for breach of contract were threatened in all the courts of the country; but the latter refused to take cognisance of gambling transactions.
In Spain and Portugal the Inquisition alone took cognisanceof the crime.
Another tribunal was afterwards established, under the title of the Chambre de l'Arsenal, which took cognisance of all the malversations committed in the financial departments of the government, during the late unhappy period.
In the year 1769, the Parliament of Grenoble took cognisance of the delinquency of the Sieur Duchelas, one of its members, who challenged and killed in a duel a captain of the Flemish legion.
A man playing the harp on a dolphin is the heraldic cognisance of the Walterton family.
The swallow (hirondelle) is the punningcognisance for Arundell.
It takes cognisance of all the data of consciousness, and assumes as its own, from whatever quarter it may come, all ascertained truth.
But, on the other hand, Ethics also takes cognisance of beliefs as well as actions, and is interested in judgments not less than achievements.
His Majesty had cognisance of it, and forbade the publication of the names.
Tis well," replied the other; "but what name or cognisance hath he?
Then," he went on, "I may say that I am aware also of a matter which those who have carried it through believe to lie only within the cognisance of themselves.
Weismannites, and with them the orthodoxy of English science, find non-cognisance more acceptable.
Those who accept the theory put forward independently by Professor Hering of Prague (whose work on this subject is translated in my book Unconscious Memory) and by myself in Life and Habit, believe in cognisance as do Lamarckians generally.
With the accusation of bigamy they would have nothing to do, but he must ask them to take cognisance of that quarrel as well as of the quarrel at the club.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cognisance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
