agnize

From Latin agnōscō.

agnize (third-person singular simple present agnizes, present participle agnizing, simple past and past participle agnized)

1. (transitive, archaic) To recognise; to acknowledge.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     I do agnisz / A natural and prompt alacrity / I find in hardness.

• agnise (UK)

• geniza