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Recognize v. t. (past & past part. recognized; pres. part. recognizing) (Written also recognise)

To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of. "Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen."

To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.

To acknowledge acquaintance with, as by salutation, bowing, or the like.

To show appreciation of; as, to recognize services by a testimonial.

To review; to reexamine. (Obs.)

To reconnoiter. (Obs.)

Synonyms: To acknowledge; avow; confess; own; allow; concede. See Acknowledge.

Recognize v. i. (Written also recognise) (Law) To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as, A B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. Note: In legal usage in the United States the second syllable is often accented.

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"Recognise" Quotes from Famous Books

... moment about a composition of Wagner's if he heard it for the first time without knowledge of its source; nor would a short story from the hand of Hawthorne remain unclaimed a day after its publication. Now, this individual manner and quality, so evident that it is impossible not to recognise it whenever it appears, is not a trick of skill; it has its source in a man's temperament and genius; it is the subtlest and most deep-going disclosure of his nature. In so far as a spiritual quality can be contained and expressed in any form of speech known among men—and ...

— Essays On Work And Culture • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... will you come home with me?' And" (pursued the jeweller) "I said to Ali bin Bakkar, 'Up and let us go with him, and we shall escape two evils; the first, our fear lest some one who knoweth us enter this mosque and recognise us, so that we come to disgrace; and the second, that we are strangers and have no place wherein to lodge.' And he answered helplessly, 'As thou wilt.' Then the man said to us again, 'O ye poor folk, ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... Greek furniture is made by Homer, who describes coverlids of dyed wool, tapestries, carpets, and other accessories, which must therefore have formed part of the contents of a great man's residence centuries before the period which we recognise as the ...

— Illustrated History of Furniture - From the Earliest to the Present Time • Frederick Litchfield

... great trouble to the amateur gardener, says a contemporary, because he is not always able to recognise them. A good plan is to pull them out of the ground. If they come up again ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 23, 1917 • Various

... emigrants who want to inquire into the resources, industries, and finances of one or other of the self-governing parts of the Empire. Many of its members never expect to see a colony. But they have come to recognise that those new-comers into the circle of civilized communities, the daughter nations of Britain, are not unworthy of English study and English pride. They have begun to suspect that the story of their struggles into existence and prosperity may be stirring, romantic, ...

— The Long White Cloud • William Pember Reeves

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