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.

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

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To give an award.

Verb

To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.

*1856 , Homer, Francis William Newman, The Illiad of Homer :

At length Alkimedon, his friend and comrade, right beknew it; [...]

*1859 , United States Congress, Congressional edition - Page 354 :

Do not think my reverend father that I am beknowing to all the affairs of the savages, there is a great deal wanting: they come to us about the affairs of their conscience, but as to the rest they consult us but little.

*1888 , The Argosy: Volume 46:

[...] when I went bolt into his dressing-room, not beknowing he was in it — why it is not likely, sir, that he comes again.

*1922 , Walter De la Mare, Down-adown-derry: a book of fairy poems :

Know I as soon as dark's dreams begin Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin; Never from terror I out may win; So dawn and dusk I pine, peak, thin, Scarcely beknowing t'other from which—My great grandam—She was a Witch.

To acknowledge; own; confess.

*1831 , Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The poetical works of Sir Thomas Wyatt :

For unto Thee no number can be laid For to prescribe remissions of offence In hearts returned, as thou thyself hast said; And I beknow my fault, my negligence: [...]