cognizances

Guilds had their ceremonial dresses, and their “liveries,” and their cognizances, and considered it an honour to wear them.

The old wooden ceilings were replaced with stone vaultings, enriched with elegant carvings and cognizances.

And who will not be buxom to them, and give them money for these their devilish cognizances, they are mocked and flouted at not a little.

It is the richest specimen, on a large scale, of this style of architecture, and is completely covered, both internally and externally, with panel-work, niches, statuary, heraldic devices, cognizances, and other decorative embellishment.

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.