recognitor

English

Etymology

From Latin recognitor, agent noun of recognosco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈkɒɡnɪtə(ɹ)/

Noun

recognitor (plural recognitors)

1. (law) One of a jury impaneled on an assize.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     the issue should be tried by a common jury or inquest , and not by recognitors of assise

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “recognitor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)