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Aspilogia is a word that means armory or heraldry. It was coined by Sir Henry Spelman (1564?-1641) as the title to his Latin treatise on coats of arms. The Dictionary of National Biography and the Revised Medieval Latin Word List assign the first appearance of the word to about 1595, if not earlier. Sir Anthony Wagner argued in his A Catalogue of Mediaeval Arms (1950) that on etymological grounds a better form of the word would have been "Aspidologia," but retained Spelman's innovation on the basis of long tradition.
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