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ˈknowledgement
[f. knowledge v. + -ment.]
†1. Formal acknowledgement; legal cognizance.
a1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 260 No writ shall be abated by knowledgement of villenage. 1628Coke On Litt. 158 b, Cognitio is knowledge, or knowledgement, or opinion, and recognition is a serious acknowledgement or opinion vpon such matters of fact as they shall haue in charge, and there⁓upon the Iurors are called Recognitores assisæ. 1641Cases of Treason in Harl. Misc. (Malham) V. 27 [These justices] do take knowledgement of all fines.
2. Knowledge, cognizance. arch.
1650T. Hubbert Pill Formality 153 They can look no further then after the things of this world; their knowledgement is bounded here. 1889R. S. Ferguson Carlisle ix. 158 No record has come to our knowledgment of the reception this letter met with. |