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Neither party would listen to the antiquaries who delivered learned lectures in the neighbourhood, showing the Bleeding Heart to have been the heraldic cognisance of the old family to whom the property had once belonged.

(Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Chapter 12)

What is heraldic cognisance? Tried to Google it, but I couldn't make out the actual meaning.

Neither party would listen to the antiquaries who delivered learned lectures in the neighbourhood, showing the Bleeding Heart to have been the heraldic cognisance of the old family to whom the property had once belonged.

(Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Chapter 12)

What is heraldic cognisance? I tried to Google it, but I couldn't make out the actual meaning.

Neither party would listen to the antiquaries who delivered learned lectures in the neighbourhood, showing the Bleeding Heart to have been the heraldic cognisance of the old family to whom the property had once belonged.

— Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens

What is heraldic cognisance? Tried to Google it, but I couldn't make out the actual meaning.

Neither party would listen to the antiquaries who delivered learned lectures in the neighbourhood, showing the Bleeding Heart to have been the heraldic cognisance of the old family to whom the property had once belonged.

(Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens, Chapter 12)

What is heraldic cognisance? Tried to Google it, but I couldn't make out the actual meaning.

Neither party would listen to the antiquaries who delivered learned lectures in the neighbourhood, showing the Bleeding Heart to have been the heraldic cognisance of the old family to whom the property had once belonged.

What is heraldic cognisance? Tried to Google it, but I couldn't make out the actual meaning.

Neither party would listen to the antiquaries who delivered learned lectures in the neighbourhood, showing the Bleeding Heart to have been the heraldic cognisance of the old family to whom the property had once belonged.

— Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens

What is heraldic cognisance? Tried to Google it, but I couldn't make out the actual meaning.