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/rˈɛkəgnˌaɪz/ Listen

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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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"Recognize" Quotes from Famous Books

... party, long buried, showed signs of resurrection. There were those among its members who, even in a king of the hated line of Hanover, could recognize and admire the same spirit of arbitrary domination that had marked their fallen idols, the Stuarts; and they now joined hands with the discontented Whigs in opposition to Pitt. The horrors of war, the blessings of ...

— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman

... expeditions. After he and Jack had disposed themselves for the night they were disturbed by the approach of someone. Rising to his feet, Warren hurried stealthily to the door, where he ran directly against the intruder, whom he was unable to recognize ...

— The Young Ranchers - or Fighting the Sioux • Edward S. Ellis

... thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul; Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man: But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature: purifying thus 10 The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying by such discipline Both pain and fear,—until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of ...

— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson

... than the masculine virtues—creates an ideal which has improved women by making them ambitious to live up to it. No one, again, who has read the preceding pages relating to the treatment of women before romantic love existed, and compares it with their treatment at present, can fail to recognize the wonderful transformation brought about by gallantry and self-sacrifice—altruistic habits which have changed men from ruffians to gentlemen. I do not say that love alone is responsible for this improvement, ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... York and had not seen Cressida for a year; now I paused on the gangplank to note how very like herself she still was, and with what undiminished zeal she went about even the most trifling things that pertained to her profession. From that distance I could recognize her "carrying" smile, and even what, in Columbus, we used ...

— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather

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