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Cognizable beforehand.

To examine beforehand, as witnesses or evidence. A committee of nine precognoscing the chances. Masson.

The act of recognizing, or the state of being recognized; acknowledgment; formal avowal; knowledge confessed or avowed; notice. The lives of such saints had, at the time of their yearly memorials, solemn recognition in the church of God. Hooker.

One of a jury impaneled on an assize. Blackstone.

Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.

The quality or condition of being recognizable.

Capable of being recognized. [Written also recognisable.] -- Rec"og*ni`za*bly, adv.

act, as to appear at the same or some other court, to keep the peace, or pay a debt. A recognizance differs from a bond, being witnessed by the record only, and not by the party's seal.

Recognition. [R.]

h a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of. Speak, vassal; recognize thy sovereign queen. Harte.

The person in whose favor a recognizance is made. [Written also recognisee.] Blackstone.

One who recognizes; a recognizor. [Written also recogniser.]

One who enters into a recognizance. [Written also recognisor.] Blackstone.

To recognize. [R. & Obs.] Boyle.

Same as Pellibranchiata.

An unknown land; unexplored country.

Producing toxic products; as, toxicogenic germs or bacteria.

A zinc plate prepared for printing by zincography; also, a print from such a plate.

Am engraver on zinc.

Of or pertaining to zincography; as, zincographic processes.