cognizance

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒɡnɪzəns/|/ˈkɒnɪzəns/    美 /ˈkɑɡnɪzəns/|/ˈkɔɡnɪzəns/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An emblem, badge or device, used as a distinguishing mark by the body of retainers of a royal or noble house. countable,uncountable
  2. Notice or awareness. countable,uncountable
    — Poor Lady Rotheles was really so imprudent on the late occasion of her niece's elopement as to go into a passion, and to utter such a tirade against her, her lord was roused from his habitual, but not natural listlessness, and became, in consequence, master of sentiments and secrets hitherto most commendably concealed from his cognizance.
  3. Jurisdiction. countable,uncountable

词形变化

cognizances plural cognisance alternative cognizaunce alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
claircognizance cognizant cognize incognizance noncognizance precognizance

词源

From Middle English conysaunce, from Old French conysance (“recognition," later, "knowledge”), from Old French conoissance (“acquaintance, recognition; knowledge, wisdom”), from conoistre (“to know”), from Latin cognōscō (“know”), from con- (“with”) + gnōscō (“know”). By surface analysis, cogniz(e) (a back-formation) + -ance.
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