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† conusance Obs. or arch.|ˈkɒnjʊ-, ˈkɒnɪzəns| Also 6 connu-. [a. OF. conus(s)ance, also conois(s)ance, conis(s)ance, mod.F. connaissance knowledge: see cognizance.] An early form of cognizance, retained to recent times in legal use. 1. gen. = cognizance 2: Knowledge, information.
1642–1656 [see cognizance 2]. 2. Law. = cognizance 3.
1523in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 38 The Chancelor..shall have connusance of plees. 1641Termes de la Ley 84 Conusance of plee is a priviledge that a Citie or Towne hath of the K[ing's] grant, to hold plee of all contracts, and of lands within the Precinct of the franchise. 1653E. Chisenhale Cath. Hist. 265 It being a thing not properly lying within his conusance..or capacity to grant. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 21 The taking conusance of blasphemy. 1705Col. Rec. Pennsylv. II. 202 That may properly fall under your Conusance. 3. = cognizance 4: Recognition or acknowledgement, esp. of a fine of lands. (Fines were abolished by Acts 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 74
1570–6,1602[see cognizance 4]. 4. = cognizance 5: Device, heraldic emblem; badge, mark.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Instit. iv. 100 As soldiars beare the conusance of their capitaine. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 412 The house of Lancaster..[had] a red Rose for their badge or conusance. 1581Mulcaster Positions xli. (1887) 243 Where discretion the daughter of time is his fairest conusance. |