Recognize

recognize -nized -niz·ing 1 : to acknowledge formally: as a : to admit as being of a particular status [ a precedent] [ a union] ;specif : to acknowledge (as a right, cause of action, or defense) as valid b : to admit as being one entitled to be heard : give the floor to c : to acknowledge the de facto existence or the independence of [refused to the new government] 2 : to account for as real, received, or incurred and treat and record appropriately ;specif : to account for (a gain, loss, expense, or income) on current accounting or tax records [recognized the gain when she included it as income on her tax return] compare realize ...

Recognisee

Recognisee, he to whom one is bound in a recognizance....

Marriage

Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...

VerbarRaskolnik

The name applied by the Russian government to any subject of the Greek faith who dissents from the established church The Raskolniki embrace many sects whose common characteristic is a clinging to antique traditions habits and customs The schism originated in 1667 in an ecclesiastical dispute as to the correctness of the translation of the religious books The dissenters who have been continually persecuted are believed to number about 20000000 although the Holy Synod officially puts the number at about 2000000 They are officially divided into three groups according to the degree of their variance from orthodox beliefs and observances as follows I ldquoMost obnoxiousrdquo the Judaizers the Molokane who refuse to recognize civil authority or to take oaths the Dukhobortsy or Dukhobors who are communistic marry without ceremony and believe that Christ was human but that his soul reappears at intervals in living men the Khlysty who countenance anthropolatory are ascetics practice continual ...

Recognosce

To recognize...

Foredeem

To recognize or judge in advance to forebode...

gerenuk

A slender East African antelope Litocranius walleri with a long slim neck and backward curving horns called also Wallers gazelle and in German Giraffengazelle It feeds on the foliage of bushes and trees and often stands erect on its hind legs leaning against the bush to browse on the higher branches in this habit it is distinctive and easy to recognize...

heads up

maintaining presence of mind alert and attentive able to recognize and take quick advantage of opportunities resourceful as he played good heads up baseball...

Irrecognition

A failure to recognize absence of recognition...

Jeffersonian simplicity

The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President 1801 1809 eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort the abolition of court etiquette and the weekly levee refusal to recognize titles of honor etc...

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