agnition
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin agnitio, from agnoscere. See notion.
Noun edit
agnition (uncountable)
- (obsolete) acknowledgement
- 1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large, and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande, […], London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC; republished in Grafton’s Chronicle; or, History of England. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [George Woodfall] for J[oseph] Johnson; […], 1809, →OCLC:
- the glorification of the Angels , the agnition of the Shepeherds , the veneration of the wise men
References edit
“agnition”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.