cognizances

It was a silence without embarrassment or constraint, a moment of arrested external cognizances.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Geraldine Bonner

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

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

Ladies delighted to appear in the cognizances of their lords, or in their own paternal bearings.

From The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous