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cognizance: mark or token by which a thing is known 1H6 II. iv. 108 “ of my blood-drinking hate,” Cym. II. iv. 127 “The of her incontinency” ; transf. from the proper heraldic sense of ‘device or emblem worn by retainers’, which occurs in Cæs. II. ii. 89 “relics, and cognizance.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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