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Acknowledgment of a person or thing; avowal; profession; recognition.

To avow knowledge of; to allow that one knows; to consent to admit, hold, or the like; to admit with a formal acknowledgment; as, to recognize an obligation; to recognize a consul.

A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church. Bp. Fitzpatrick.

relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance. [Obs.] Hooker. A sacred vow that none should aye Spenser.

A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.

Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows. One of them is religious. Chaucer.

The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission. Disavowing the remitment of Claudius. Milton.

Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows.

To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne.

Ti withdraw; to recall; to disavow; to recant; to take back; as, to retract an accusation or an assertion. I would as freely have retracted this charge of idolatry as I ever made it. Bp. Stillingfleet.

ords or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any. For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense. Prior…

Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, making the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.

e The battle hung. Milton. The scales are turned; her kindness weighs no more Now than my vows. Waller.

Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut. xxix. 29.

Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest. He tried to enforce a stricter discipline and greater regard for morals, both in the religious orders and the secular clergy. Prescett.

Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, avowal, or acts.

Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune.

prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is…

sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, â, ê, î, ô, û, always are.