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Meaning of recognitory | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
    not-comparable
  2. Pertaining to recognizing (matching a current perception with a memory).
    not-comparable
  3. Pertaining to recognizing (acknowledging the existence, status or validity of something).
    not-comparable

Examples

“A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous.”
“[…] 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.”
“Glancing across to our corner, he nodded to Francis, a flashing-eyed, recognitory nod, as from one power to another.”
“[…] 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.””
“[…] 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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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