Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To acknowledge; own; recognize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Archaic To recognize; to acknowledge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic to
recognize , toacknowledge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be fully aware or cognizant of
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Examples
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In the first place, "I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity I find in hardness," though Heaven forbid but that I should perceive beauty wherever it exists (seeing that a "thing of beauty is a joy for ever").
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Without doubt, Lamb's taste on several matters was peculiar; for instance, there were a few obsolete words, such as arride, agnize, burgeon, which he fancied, and chose to rescue from oblivion.
Charles Lamb Cornwall, Barry 1866
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Without doubt, Lamb's taste on several matters was peculiar; for instance, there were a few obsolete words, such as _arride, agnize, burgeon_, &c., which he fancied, and chose to rescue from oblivion.
Charles Lamb Barry Cornwall 1830
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“MY DEAR PROCTER: I do agnize a shame in not having been to pay my congratulations to Mrs. Procter and your happy self; but on Sunday (my only morning) I was engaged to a country walk; and in virtue of the hypostatical union between us, when Mary calls, it is understood that I call too, we being univocal.
Charles Lamb Cornwall, Barry 1866
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"MY DEAR PROCTER: I do agnize a shame in not having been to pay my congratulations to Mrs. Procter and your happy self; but on Sunday (my only morning) I was engaged to a country walk; and in virtue of the hypostatical union between us, when Mary calls, it is understood that I call too, we being univocal.
Charles Lamb Barry Cornwall 1830
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