[f. KNOWLEDGE v. + -MENT.]
† 1. Formal acknowledgement; legal cognizance.
a. 1625. Sir H. Finch, Law (1636), 260. No writ shall be abated by knowledgement of villenage.
1628. Coke, 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 thereupon the Iurors are called Recognitores assisæ.
1641. Cases of Treason, in Harl. Misc. (Malham), V. 27. [These justices] do take knowledgement of all fines.
2. Knowledge, cognizance. arch.
1650. Hubbert, Pill Formality, 153. They can look no further then after the things of this world: their knowledgment is bounded here.
1889. R. S. Ferguson, Carlisle, ix. 158. No record has come to our knowledgment of the reception this letter met with.
