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• agnize — transitive verb (agnized; agnizing) Etymology: Latin agnoscere to acknowledge (from ad + noscere to know) + English ize (as in recognize) more at know Date: 1535 archaic recognize, acknowledge …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• agnize — /ag nuyz , ag nuyz/, v.t., agnized, agnizing. Archaic. to recognize; acknowledge; own. Also, esp. Brit., agnise. [1525 35; < L agn(oscere) to recognize (a(d) AD + (g)noscere to come to know, equiv. to gno know + scere ESCE) + IZE, modeled on… …   Universalium