cognizances

Witness the cider-barrel, the log-cabin, the hickory-stick, the palmetto, and all the cognizances of party.

From Essays — Second Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson

These, the Mexican attendants on Montezuma told them, were the cognizances of the many cities of the plain, showing that the whole people were joining in the movement commenced by those of the capital.

From By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

And, so assotted are some, that they not only give them monie, to maintain their abhomination withall, but also weare their badges and cognizances in their hats and caps openly.

From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Arthur C. Behrend

The other divisions had each its distinguishing banner, every cacique bearing these cognizances like our Spanish nobles, a circumstance we could not credit when so informed by our prisoners.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Philosophy has taught us nothing as to the nature of our sensations, our perceptions, our cognizances, the origin of our thoughts and ideas, but words.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike