cognisances

Students appeared again on Thursday and were released on their own cognisances and must report daily at their local police stations, said police spokesman Supt Ernest Setati.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

But did we please we would show thee them, and thou shouldst know them by their cognisances.

The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

Amongst the slain were found, half-dead, two young knights named Palamon and Arcite, whom the heralds recognised, from the cognisances on their armour, as of blood-royal, and born of two sisters.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

And to cause his spéech the better to be beléeued, he tooke awaie the kings cognisances from them that ware the same, as the collars from their necks, and the badges of cressants from the sleeues of the seruants of houshold, and throwing them awaie, said that such cognisances were no longer to be borne.

Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed

Clear and simple cognisances do not stimulate the human mind to that painstaking, comprehensive effort which is the necessary antecedent of science; in brief, a science can arise only when things are under consideration which are not intelligible directly and without profound reflection -- things, therefore, which contain a problem.

Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

Pynson, Berthelet, Raynes, and other typographers to clothe the volumes which formed their libraries, before the more luxurious and splendid fashion was introduced of investing them in richly gilt calf bindings, with or without armorial cognisances, and these were again superseded by the adoption of the Continental taste for Levant morocco

The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time William Carew Hazlitt 1873

He seeth the knight, but knoweth him not, for he had a white shield and cognisances of the same.

The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

Aye: but ye if be steadfast and fear God, and the foe come upon you in hot haste, your Lord will help you with five thousand angels in their cognisances!

The Koran (Al-Qur'an) 1854

In the purer ages of chivalry, no other cognisances on shields were adopted, either in war or in these games which were its image, than the armorial bearings which each warrior had derived from his ancestors, or solemnly received at the hands of the heralds before he entered on his first campaign.

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

The screen is now made into a side-board, and is most fancifully and beautifully wrought with crests, ciphers, and cognisances, belonging to the Holts and many of the neighbouring families.

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821