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.
Although one is not usually explicitly aware that one is dreaming while in a dream, a remarkable exception sometimes occurs in which one possesses clear cognizance that one is dreaming.
A great disservice will be done to studies in indigenization if cognizance is not taken of those structures widely used by the masses, whether educated or not.
An advisory committee must take cognizance both of the serious and the relatively trivial.
For the data undermine the domain-general link in humans between the (cognizance of the) sign and its referent upon which this evolutionary scenario relies.
Cognizance of the crucial differences between the two expressions of natural theology, notwithstanding the similitude of language, cannot be over-emphasized.
It also fails to take cognizance of enclosure as a spatial projection of power and its transformative effects on social relations.
Membership in a wider community implies cognizance of the knowledge of more restricted communities (again, solely in terms of linguistic variables), but not the converse.
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.
