0 to take notice of and consider something, especially when judging:
The lawyer asked the jury to take cognizance of the defendant's generosity in giving to charity.
Of course, cognizance of speech community norms does not imply use.
Rather, it is a kind of direct, perhaps intuitive, cognizance of the future events themselves.
Local peculiarities, however, survived mostly beneath the cognizance of the center.
It takes cognizance of one of the industrial city's most distinctive characteristics, its specialization of land use by economic functions and social categories.
Cognizance of a relevant contrast can then form the basis for perceiving the adult form as a correct alternative to the child form.
Different guidelines were set for urban areas taking cognizance of population density.
Without this prior cognizance, there is nothing, on this view, that could trigger the rejection of their own form for the adult alternative.
Cultural intrusion can be avoided by taking cognizance of the communities' own artistic expressions and forms such as festivals, narratives, songs, dances, puppets, and masks.
