agnize
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]agnize (third-person singular simple present agnizes, present participle agnizing, simple past and past participle agnized)
- (transitive, archaic) To recognise; to acknowledge.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- I do agnisz / A natural and prompt alacrity / I find in hardness.