What is "cognisant"

Usage examples of "cognisant".

Was he perhaps, thought Alastair, cognisant of the strange mixture at table, and not disapproving?

I am fully cognisant of the fact that many art experts may take issue with what I plan to say but I believe you, the audience should be the judge.

Crossing her arms and putting her hands on her shoulders, she looked back at me and she was fully cognisant of the effect that had.

For long his mind had been sluggish, cognisant of walls but of no windows.

The neighbour hood residents, instinctively cognisant of violent death in their midst, had converged upon the Hi roux dwelling by the hundreds- perhaps by the thousands.

His devotees and disciples some vaguely cognisant of his intentions, others minutely instructed awaited some more or less forceful demonstration of Reparationist potency.

Mr Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite.

He who wished to read the hearts of this husband and wife who stood at right angles, to have their wounds healed by Law, would have needed to have watched the hundred thousand hours of their wedded life, known and heard the million thoughts and words which had passed in the dim spaces of their world, to have been cognisant of the million reasons why they neither of them felt that they could have done other than they had done.

The neighbour hood residents, instinctively cognisant of violent death in their midst, had converged upon the Hi roux dwelling by the hundreds perhaps by the thousands.

But at this moment, the shout of the sportsman's companion was heard calling for his friend, and the dwarf, as if unwilling that more than one person should be cognisant of his presence, disappeared as the young man emerged from the dell to join his comrade.

Dref spoke quickly, clearly cognisant of his master's limited patience.

Lyman, because of his position as Commissioner, might be cognisant of the Railroad's plans, and, at the same time, could give sound legal advice as to what was to be done should the new rumour prove true.

March was notorious for his appreciation of expensive beauty, and he was acutely cognisant of anything that interrupted beauty's appreciation of himself.

Money was now his light, his medium for seeing, that without which he was really unable to see, really not cognisant of phenomena.