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Definition of Cognizant
1. Adjective. (sometimes followed by 'of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception. "Aware that he had exceeded the speed limit"
Attributes: Awareness, Cognisance, Cognizance, Consciousness, Knowingness
Also: Awake, Witting, Conscious, Sensible, Sensitive
Similar to: Alert, Alive, Awake, Conscious, Sensible
Derivative terms: Awareness, Cognisance, Cognise, Cognizance, Cognize
Antonyms: Unaware
Definition of Cognizant
1. a. Having cognizance or knowledge. (of).
Definition of Cognizant
1. Adjective. Aware; fully informed; having understanding ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cognizant
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognizant
Literary usage of Cognizant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Psychology by John Bascom (1869)
"If we were directly cognizant, and only cognizant of the content in the organ of
sense, cognizant of it for what it is, and where it is, physically, ..."
2. The Institutes of Law: A Treatise of the Principles of Jurisprudence as by James Lorimer (1880)
"HOW MAN BECOMES cognizant OF THE KULE OF LIFE. Having seen reason to conclude
that, even in the absence of supernatural revelation, mankind acknowledges, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"It is said, that the defendant might not know that Rogers, his attorney, took
out any order for this purpose : but the client must be taken to the cognizant ..."
4. The Proceedings of the Court Convened Under the Third Canon of 1844, in the by Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk (1845)
"This evidence is, itself, so positive and distinct, and comes from those who must
be cognizant, certainly, of the truth or untruth of the facts charged, ..."
5. The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to by Gouverneur Morris (1888)
"Affairs in Paris in 1792 of which Crauford was cognizant. SEEING thus from within
the society of the towns in the various countries of Europe, ..."
6. Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy (1908)
"anything real of which the physical senses are cognizant? Everything is as real
as you make it, and no more so. What you see, hear, feel, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... a witness duly summoned from attending court, is punishable as a contempt,2
and so also is the use of threatening language to any person cognizant of ..."
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