Crossword-Solution: COGNIZANCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cognizance | n. | Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation. |
| Cognizance | n. | Recollection; recognition. |
| Cognizance | n. | Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies. |
| Cognizance | n. | The hearing a matter judicially. |
| Cognizance | n. | An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done. |
| Cognizance | n. | 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. |
| Cognizance | n. | 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. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
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greedy person
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Sentences with COGNIZANCE (5)
Nor was he disappointed entirely, for as she walked away she raised one hand to the black, waving mass at the nape of her neck—the peculiarly feminine gesture that admits cognizance of appraising eyes behind her—and Tarzan saw upon a finger of this hand the ring of strange workmanship that he had seen upon the finger of the veiled woman a short time before.
Among the various stenches peculiar to a native village the ape-man’s sensitive nostrils were finally rewarded by cognizance of the delicate aroma which marked the presence of her he sought.
With the cognizance of it there rose in the breast of the ape-man a strange uneasiness—the result of an irresistible force which he was destined to become acquainted with anew—the instinct which draws the male to his mate.
With them, the eye is situated so far from their vertex that they can scarcely take cognizance of what goes on at that extremity of their frame.
They were hunters—the lowest plane in the evolution of the human race of which science takes cognizance.
Quotes with COGNIZANCE (3)
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.
Terror is an artery. Running unfailing channels of bloodied thoroughfares by dint of the wilds beyond our knowing. Fluctuations and murmurs are audible within the splintered leeway of our preserve as a consequence of interstices modeled in such brutality. This appended artery offers no direction; idle and at times desultory. Bloodstained tracks and avenues guide casualties. Terror, like death, is not complicated, nor is it simple. It is but routine — natural. To call it other…
Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind. This is precisely the point where our present way of thinking needs to be amended, perhaps by a bit of blood-transfusion from Eastern thought.