recognitory

English edit

Etymology edit

From recognit(ion) +‎ -ory.

Adjective edit

recognitory (not comparable)

Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
1. Pertaining to recognizing (matching a current perception with a memory).
  - 1823, Charles Lamb, “Distant Correspondents”, in Essays of Elia‎^[1], London: Moxon, published 1836, page 244:
    A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous.
  - 1852, Mrs. Lorenzo N. Nunn, chapter 4, in The Militia Major‎^[2], volume 2, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, page 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, chapter 5, in Last Things‎^[3], New York: Scribner, page 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, editor, The Development and Neural Bases of Higher Cognitive Functions‎^[4], The New York Academy of Sciences, page 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.”
2. Pertaining to recognizing (acknowledging the existence, status or validity of something).
  - 1841, Archibald Boyd, chapter 8, in Episcopacy and Presbytery‎^[5], London: S. Seeley and W. Burnside, page 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^[6], London: Variorum Reprints, published 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.

Synonyms edit

recognitive