Verb

(recogniz) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

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

* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,

He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days, and he felt a genuine thrill of pleasure when he recognized the red bandana turban of old Aunt Lyddy, the ancient negro woman who had sold him gingerbread and fried fish, and told him weird tales of witchcraft and conjuration, in the old days when, as an idle boy, he had loafed about the market-house.

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

To acknowledge or consider as something.

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

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw

, title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}

To give an award.

To show appreciation of.

to recognize services by a testimonial

(obsolete) To review; to examine again.

(South)

(obsolete) To reconnoiter.

Verb

(recogniz) (North American and Oxford British spelling)

To cognize again.

Verb

(approv)

To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}

To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.

To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically.

* (Ralph Waldo Emerson),

Opportunities to approve worth.

* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),

He had approved himself a great warrior.

* (George Gordon Byron),

'T is an old lesson; Time approves it true.

* (Francis Parkman),

His accountapproves him a man of thought.

To consider or show to be worthy of approbation or acceptance.

* (Henry Rogers),

The first care and concern must be to approve himself to God.

* (Thomas Babington Macaulay),

They had not approved of the deposition of James.

* (William Black),

They approved of the political institutions.

Note: This word, when it signifies to be pleased with, to think favorably (of''), is often followed by ''of .

Verb

(approv)

(English Law) To make profit of; to convert to one's own profit;—said especially of waste or common land appropriated by the lord of the manor.