Meanings
verbagnize (third-person singular simple present agnizes, present participle agnizing, simple past and past participle agnized)
present singular third person agnizes · participle present agnizing · participle past agnized · past agnized · alternative UK agnise
- archaictransitiveTo recognise; to acknowledge.
I do agnisz / A natural and prompt alacrity / I find in hardness.
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)
Synonyms & antonyms
verbbe fully aware or cognizant of
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
- Proto-Italic*ad
- Proto-Italic*ad-
- Latinad-
- Latingnōscō
- Latinnōscō
- Latinagnōscō
- Englishagnize
Borrowed from Latin agnōscō.
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “agnize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/agnize.
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