Definitions For Recognitory

Adjective

(not comparable) Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition. Pertaining to recognize, recognizing (matching a current perception with a memory). {{quote-book, en, year=1823, author={{w, Charles Lamb (writer), Charles Lamb}}, chapter=Distant Correspondents, title=w:Essays of Elia, location=London, publisher=Moxon, year_published=1836, page=244, url=https://archive.org/details/elia01lamb_0 {{quote-book, en, year=1852, author=Mrs. Lorenzo N. Nunn, title=The Militia Major, location=London, publisher=Thomas Cautley Newby, volume=2, chapter=4, page=64, url=https://archive.org/details/militiamajornove02nunn {{quote-text, en, year=1970, author=w:C. P. Snow, title={{w, Last Things (novel), Last Things}}, url=https://archive.org/details/lastthings00snow, chapter=5, page=43, publisher=Scribner, location=New York {{quote-book, en, year=1990, author=w:Jean Matter Mandler, chapter=Recall of Events by Preverbal Children, editor=Adele Diamond, title=The Development and Neural Bases of Higher Cognitive Functions, publisher=The New York Academy of Sciences, page=488, url=https://archive.org/details/developmentneura0000unse Pertaining to recognizing (acknowledging the existence, status or validity of something). {{quote-book, en, year=1841, author=w:Archibald Boyd, title=Episcopacy and Presbytery, location=London, publisher=S. Seeley and W. Burnside, chapter=8, page=293, url=https://archive.org/details/episcopacyandpr00boydgoog {{quote-book, en, year=1949, author=Peter Topping, chapter=Feudal Institutions as Revealed in the Assizes of Romania, title=Studies on Latin Greece: A.D. 1205-1715, location=London, publisher=Variorum Reprints, year_published=1977, section=pp. 87-88, footnote, url=https://archive.org/details/studiesonlatingr0000topp

Synonyms

recognitive

Etymology

From {{af, en, recognition, alt1=recognit(ion), -ory}}.

Is Recognitory a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
17
Words with Friends
19

The word Recognitory is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends

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