recognitory

From recognit(ion) +‎ -ory.

recognitory (not comparable)

1. 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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.

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