recognitory
Adjective
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Adjective
recognitory (not comparable)
- Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
- Pertaining to recognizing matching a current perception with a memory.
- 1823, Charles Lamb (writer), “Distant Correspondents” in Essays of Elia, London: Moxon, 1836, p. 244,
- A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous.
- 1852, Mrs. Lorenzo N. Nunn, The Militia Major, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, Volume 2, Chapter 4, p. 64,
- […] two dogs, with a snarling sort of bark, made their appearance from a neighbouring pig-stye, but, instead of following up the attack, came forward whimpering and whining a recognitory welcome to Jim, while they described sundry circles around him expressive of their joy at the meeting.
- 1970, C. P. Snow, Last Things (novel), New York: Scribner, Chapter 5, p. 43,
- Glancing across to our corner, he nodded to Francis, a flashing-eyed, recognitory nod, as from one power to another.
- 1990, Jean Matter Mandler, “Recall of Events by Preverbal Children” in Adele Diamond (ed.), The Development and Neural Bases of Higher Cognitive Functions, The New York Academy of Sciences, p. 488,
- […] we must be cautious about inferring the same recognitory processes are going on in infancy as in adulthood. The fact that an infant dishabituates to a male face after seeing a series of female faces, tells us nothing about whether any of these stimuli seem familiar to the infant, or carry the conceptual meaning involved in the judgment, “Oh, that’s not a woman.”
- 1823, Charles Lamb (writer), “Distant Correspondents” in Essays of Elia, London: Moxon, 1836, p. 244,
- Pertaining to recognizing acknowledging the existence, status or validity of something.
- 1841, Archibald Boyd, Episcopacy and Presbytery, London: S. Seeley and W. Burnside, Chapter 8, p. 293,
- […] there is not one decisive intimation, not one conclusive sentence in those authors, nor one decree in those councils, recognitory of the existence or explanatory of the duties of such a body.
- 1949, Peter Topping, Feudal Institutions as Revealed in the Assizes of Romania, in Studies on Latin Greece: A.D. 1205-1715, London: Variorum Reprints, 1977, pp. 87-88, footnote,
- The acrostico or crustillo […] was a small payment in kind, a “recognitory” rent indicating the lord’s superior right in the land, not a true rent based on the land’s income.
- 1841, Archibald Boyd, Episcopacy and Presbytery, London: S. Seeley and W. Burnside, Chapter 8, p. 293,
- Pertaining to recognizing matching a current perception with a memory.
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