different between recognitors vs recognitory

English

Noun

recognitors

1. plural of recognitor

English

Etymology

From recognit(ion) +? -ory.

Adjective

recognitory (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
   1. Pertaining to recognizing (matching a current perception with a memory).
      • 1823, Charles Lamb, “Distant Correspondents” in Essays of Elia, London: Moxon, 1836, p. 244,^[1]

        A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous.

      • 1852, Mrs. Lorenzo N. Nunn, The Militia Major, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, Volume 2, Chapter 4, p. 64,^[2]

        […] two dogs, with a snarling sort of bark, made their appearance from a neighbouring pig-stye, but, instead of following up the attack, came forward whimpering and whining a recognitory welcome to Jim, while they described sundry circles around him expressive of their joy at the meeting.

      • 1970, C. P. Snow, Last Things, New York: Scribner, Chapter 5, p. 43,^[3]

        Glancing across to our corner, he nodded to Francis, a flashing-eyed, recognitory nod, as from one power to another.

      • 1990, Jean Matter Mandler, “Recall of Events by Preverbal Children” in Adele Diamond (ed.), The Development and Neural Bases of Higher Cognitive Functions, The New York Academy of Sciences, p. 488,^[4]

        […] we must be cautious about inferring the same recognitory processes are going on in infancy as in adulthood. The fact that an infant dishabituates to a male face after seeing a series of female faces, tells us nothing about whether any of these stimuli seem familiar to the infant, or carry the conceptual meaning involved in the judgment, “Oh, that’s not a woman.”

   2. Pertaining to recognizing (acknowledging the existence, status or validity of something).
      • 1841, Archibald Boyd, Episcopacy and Presbytery, London: S. Seeley and W. Burnside, Chapter 8, p. 293,^[5]

        […] there is not one decisive intimation, not one conclusive sentence in those authors, nor one decree in those councils, recognitory of the existence or explanatory of the duties of such a body.

      • 1949, Peter Topping, Feudal Institutions as Revealed in the Assizes of Romania, in Studies on Latin Greece: A.D. 1205-1715, London: Variorum Reprints, 1977, pp. 87-88, footnote,^[6]

        The acrostico or crustillo […] was a small payment in kind, a “recognitory” rent indicating the lord’s superior right in the land, not a true rent based on the land’s income.

Synonyms

• recognitive