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.

*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, 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

(admir)

(obsolete) To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at.

*, II.2.4:

The poor fellow, admiring how he came there, was served in state all day long […].

* Fuller

examples rather to be admired than imitated

To regard with wonder and delight.

to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence;

to estimate or prize highly.

to admire''' a person of high moral worth, to '''admire a landscape