Verb

(recognis)

To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.

To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or valid.

To acknowledge or consider as something.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.}}

To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.

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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”}}

To give an award.

Verb

(en verb)

To receive, especially with a consent, with favour, or with approval.

* (rfdate)

She accepted of a treat.

* (rfdate), Psalms 20:3

The Lord accept thy burnt sacrifice.

To admit to a place or a group.

The Boy Scouts were going to accept him as a member.

To regard as proper, usual, true, or to believe in.

I accept the fact that Christ lived.

To receive as adequate or satisfactory.

To receive or admit to; to agree to; to assent to; to submit to.

I accept your proposal, amendment, or excuse.

To endure patiently.

I accept my punishment.

(transitive, legal, business) To agree to pay.

To receive officially

to accept the report of a committee

To receive something willingly.

I accept .