Verb

To establish the identity of someone or something.

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(biology) To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.

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To equate or make the same; to unite or combine into one.

* D. Ramsay

Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers.

* Burke

Let us identify , let us incorporate ourselves with the people.

(reflexive) To have a strong affinity (with); to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.

* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 117:

The dream is given a new interpretation if in her dream she means not herself but her friend, if she has put herself in the place of her friend, or, as we may say, she has identified herself with her.

To associate oneself with some group.

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To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.

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Verb

(propos)

To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.

To ask for a person's hand in marriage.

To intend.

* 1859 , (John Gorham Palfrey), History of New England , Preface (Google preview):

I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.

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(obsolete) To talk; to converse.

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :

HERO. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour;

There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice

Proposing with the prince and Claudio

(obsolete) To set forth.

* 1616 , (George Chapman) (translator), Homer's Iliad , book 11:

. . . so weighty was the cup,

That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.