identifyv.

Brit.

/ʌɪˈdɛntᵻfʌɪ/, U.S.

/aɪˈdɛn(t)əˌfaɪ/,

/əˈdɛn(t)əˌfaɪ/

Forms: 1600s identifi, 1600s identifie, 1600s– identify.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French identifier.

Etymology: < French identifier to treat (several things) as identical, to subsume (several things) under one idea or concept (1610), to model oneself on (a person or thing), to feel oneself to be, or to become, closely associated with or part of (a person or thing) (1766 in identifier à , 1799 in identifier avec , both used reflexively; 1926 in specific use in psychoanalysis) < post-classical Latin identificare to treat as identical (12th cent.; 14th cent. in British sources) < identi- (in identitas identity n.) + classical Latin -ficāre -fy suffix. The senses in branch II. apparently show a development within English, and are not paralleled in French before the late 18th cent. nor in post-classical Latin before the 19th cent.Compare Catalan identificar (1696), Spanish identificar (a1598, apparently earliest used reflexively in sense ‘to become identical’), Portuguese identificar (1685), Italian identificare (a1640, earliest in sense ‘to become identical’).

I. Senses relating to association.

a. transitive. To regard or treat as identical (with, †to). Also formerly: †to make identical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > make identical [verb (transitive)]

co-essence1594

identify1626

homologate1794

1626 W. Vaughan Golden Fleece xvii. 136 Seeke not to crucifie your Sauiour againe, by seperating your selues from the Communion of your fellow members: for in so doing, you diuide his bodie into parcels, who ought to bee respected entirely one, and identified in your soules, without the least rent or scandall.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. vi. 404 A body..can not be eyther like, or identifyed to nothing.

a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Creed (1697) 89 All the divine perfections (being intrinsecal unto and identified with the divine nature or essence).

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxviii. 82 (note) Osiris, whom he identifies with Serapis.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 150 They have incorporated and identified the estate of the church with the mass of private property.

1839 W. Irving Mountjoy in Knickerbocker Mag. Nov. 404 So as to identify the surrounding scenes with those of which I had just been reading.

1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 8 That he identified the glory of God with the gaining fresh converts to the Roman Church.

1907 W. James Pragmatism vii. 267 One misunderstanding of pragmatism is to identify it with positivistic tough-mindedness.

1953 Mariner's Mirror 39 140 The ‘fargood’ may, perhaps, be identified with the beitiáss, or tacking-boom, of the Norsemen.

2000 R. W. Jenson in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 717/1 We can identify the Father with God himself.

†b. intransitive. To be made, become, or prove to be identical (with). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > be the same as [verb (intransitive)] > become the same as

identify1683

consimilate1716

1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 103 Only as..conjoined with our affections, which commix, coincide, and as it were identifi with that grandest and Divinest Mysterie of Love, sciz. God made Flesh.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 219 An enlightened self-interest, which..they tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public.

1797 C. Lamb Let. 5 Feb. in Lett. C & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 98 Your taste & mine do not Always exactly identify.

a. transitive (reflexive). With with: to model oneself on, now esp. unconsciously; to feel oneself to be, or to become, closely associated with or part of.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (reflexive)]

join13..

fellowshipa1382

adjoin1533

to put together1556

piece1579

sort1579

mixture1582

troopa1592

consort1597

identify1718

associate1881

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > fellow feeling > fellow-feel [verb]

identify1718

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (reflexive)]

ally?a1400

fellowc1425

accompanya1470

associatea1513

band1530

confederate1531

join1535

rely1577

interleague1590

bandy1597

colleague1599

identify1780

solidarize1888

1718 F. de la Pilonnière Reply to Dr Snape's Vindic. ii. §4 34 The compilers of them [the Articles of the Church of England] did Wonders at the Dawn of the Reformation... Indeed, They were good Men, and very unlike Those who Identify themselves with them.

1767 W. Kenrick tr. J. J. Rousseau Misc. Wks. II. 29 If, for example, they were early accustomed to regard the individual only according to its relations with the body of the state, and to be sensible of their own existence..merely as it forms a part of the public; they may at length come to identify themselves in a degree with the great whole.

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 92 Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.

1804 Times 3 Dec. 2/3 They have, in some sort, identified themselves with their Monarch, and participated in his feelings.

1817 W. Hazlitt Characters Shakespear's Plays 347 Shakespear's imagination, by identifying itself with the strongest characters in the most trying circumstances, grappled at once with nature.

1836 Q. Rev. Apr. 136 Pope does not mean, of course, that the reader is wholly to identify himself with the spirit of his author, for that would put an end to criticism altogether.

1874 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr, Soc. N. Y. 6 179 He gave himself to this service by almost identifying himself with the population. He left civilization behind him and adopted the manners of the natives; he almost lived as the savages live.

1913 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Interpretation of Dreams iv. 126 If she has put herself in the place of her friend, or, as we may say, has identified herself with her friend.

1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour v. 40 Other investigators have studied the beliefs of children who..‘identify’ themselves with their parents—i.e. wish to be liked by them, wish to resemble them.

1972 Where Jan. 18/2 Thus the parents, in conversation at home, are able to identify themselves with the place and people under discussion.

2004 M. Haag & V. Haag Rough Guide to Da Vinci Code 58 Cleopatra deliberately identified herself with Isis, and called herself the New Isis.

b. intransitive. With with: in same sense.

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1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 51 Sam Weller, Mark Tapley, Clara Peggotty..identify with their master's family.

1958 Observer 2 Feb. 14/3 Readers can immediately identify with her nice puzzled hero.

1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 81 Because we are trained to give psychological and moral credence to the imaginary..we may find it more difficult to identify with the real world.

2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) 9 Some of the indigenous peoples and the anthropologists identifying with them go to the opposite extreme. They insist that past indigenous peoples were (and modern ones still are) gentle and ecologically wise stewards of their environments.

c. intransitive. With the object of association unspecified or implied by the context.

ΚΠ

1959 Listener 31 Dec. 1174/2 An engaging series of attempts and failures to ‘identify’, as cricket-master at a prep school, or as a journalist on a go-getting daily.

1968 Blues Unlimited Sept. 8 Finally Tina came on and tore the joint up. She signified, the women identified and the men just drooled.

1969 Times 17 Oct. 18/5 Everyone identified madly and Biba's knew no failure.

2008 H. J. Ruff How to Prosper during Coming Bad Years Pref. p. xvii Up to your ears in debt? Broke? Here I can really identify. I grew up broke.

d. intransitive. With as. To consider or describe oneself as belonging to a particular category or group of people.

ΚΠ

1975 R. Green in Arch. Sexual Behavior 4 339 If designated female and raised as female, the child will identify as female.

1987 H. I. Safa in L. Mullings Cities U.S. xi. 261 They identified as working class and came out of a classic working-class tradition.

1998 Stud. Amer. Indian Lit. 10 22 As is consistent with his alternative gender identity, James William identifies as female.

2008 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen (Electronic ed.) b2 I've identified as a Democrat all my life until this Congress.

2015 P. Lenihan et al. in C. Richards & M. J. Barker Palgrave Handbk. Psychol. Sexuality & Gender viii. 132 For trans people.., identifying as asexual can sidestep binary, cisgendered prejudice against their sexuality.

3. transitive. With with: to regard as sharing, or cause to share, interests, feelings, principles, actions, etc.; to associate closely or completely. Chiefly passive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > make identical [verb (transitive)] > associate inseparably

identify1831

1831 W. Scott Abbot (new ed.) I. Introd. p. vi They became identified with the literature of their country.

1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty ii. 31 A legislature or an executive, not identified in interest with the people.

1866 Visct. Strangford Select. from Writings (1869) I. 102 A Crimean peace..is identified with the name of Stratford Canning.

1916 Times Hist. War 31 Oct. 407/2 Rumanian interests would..have become wholly identified with those of the Central European bloc but for the fact that between them loomed the question of Rumania irredenta.

1964 New Statesman 17 Apr. 592/3 The Maoists are blind not to see this and to identify their cause with a nostalgia for the Stalin epoch.

2006 D. Edgerton Shock of Old (2008) iii. 70 A number of analysts have, perversely, identified this growth in service employment with the rise of an ‘information society’.

II. Senses relating to categorization or description.

4. transitive. To serve as a means of identification for; to show something or somebody to be.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > identify or distinguish [verb (transitive)]

to take knowledge ofa1400

character1555

distinguish1600

characterizea1602

remark1633

identify1675

stamp1837

dispunct1842

keynote1877

finger1945

1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London iv. 36 The symptoms that Identifie Diseases, do immediately, and per se, emanate from them, in or near the parts affected.

1774 F. Hargrave Argument in Def. Lit. Prop. 18 One literary composition is distinguishable from another; and therefore each has its marks and bounds to identify it.

1775 W. Kenrick & J. Murdoch tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals II. 334 The only character which distinguishes or identifies a species, is the faculty of producing and perpetuating animals of that species.

1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda III. xxvii. 194 There was one slight mark, however, which, he said, would identify his child more satisfactorily to his own mind, than any collateral proofs.

1841 H. T. Tuckerman Rambles & Reveries 162 The natural scenery, the climate and the dialect and manners of the people are, alone, sufficient strongly to identify the different towns.

1886 J. Ward in Encycl. Brit. XX. 62/2 The voice perceived identifies Jacob, at the same time the hands identify Esau.

1924 Library Mar. 255 The manuscripts are identified in the catalogue by the first words of the second leaf, the ‘probatory words’.

1959 Times 8 Dec. 13/6 Their..speech would identify them as ‘Scousers’ wherever English is recognized.

2000 S. Bellow Ravelstein 122 Coming home again the following night I found the house filled with large, colored stickum circles—the green identified my possessions, the salmon-colored were glued to hers.

a. transitive. To ascertain or assert what a thing or who a person is; to determine the identity of; to recognize as belonging to a particular category or kind; to refer (a plant, animal, or mineral specimen) to its correct species.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > recognition > recognize, acknowledge [verb (transitive)]

acknowOE

anyeteOE

i-kenc1000

yknowOE

knowOE

seeOE

kenc1275

knowledgec1330

to take knowledge ofa1400

perceive1549

agnize1568

reknowledge1611

recognize1725

reconnoitre1729

identify1746

recognizate1799

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] > identify or ascertain

conditionate1646

identify1746

ID1944

1746 T. Shaw Suppl. to Trav. & Observ. vi. 74 It is not likely..that so noted an Animal as the Antilope, should want a proper and peculiar Appelation to identify and distinguish it, from all other horned Quadrupeds.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1830) IV. xxiii. 306 All indictments must set forth the christian name, sirname [etc.]..of the offender: and all this to identify his person.

1847 Bewick's Hist. Brit. Birds (new ed.) I. 167 The above figure..it is hoped is sufficiently accurate to enable the ornithologist to identify this very small bird.

1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 460 A sailor identifies a speck in the horizon as a ship of particular build.

1889 Athenæum 28 Sept. 421/1 Mr. Round..has also identified as belonging to the reign of Stephen an elaborate hidated survey.

1939 J. A. Schumpeter Business Cycles I. iii. 84 Innovation is possible without anything we should identify as invention, and invention does not necessarily induce innovation.

1957 Jrnl. Protozool. 4 176 The amoeba was identified as a species of Acanthamoeba.

1991 Adirondack June 79/1 If no branch is available, just yell as loud as you can so the bear can identify you as a human.

2006 CXpress (S. Afr.) 13 Dec. 56/3 I was able to identify the Dune Crow-berry (Rhus crenata)—a sprawling shrub distinguishable by the trifoliate leaves.

b. transitive (reflexive). To prove, reveal, or declare one's identity.

ΚΠ

1799 Monthly Rev. Apr. 480 We must further request this gentleman to authenticate his communication by farther identifying himself, giving his place of residence, &c.

a1839 J. Chitty Precedents in Pleading (1847) 3 The misnomer of the plaintiff..is no ground of nonsuit, if he identify himself as the real creditor or claimant.

1860 F. H. Smith My Experience 44 I cannot identify myself more to you than I have done. You know I was devoted to you when I lived in the body.

1906 J. London White Fang v. v. 317 Inoffensive ranchers in remote valleys were held up by armed men and compelled to identify themselves.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Aug. 1/2 Hawkins..identified himself as a ‘pay-off man’ in the ‘numbers business’.

1991 C. Hiaasen Native Tongue (1992) xxvi. 301 ‘The caller identified himself’..‘By name?’ The blockhead! Molly thought.

2007 E. Danticat Brother, I'm Dying ii. xviii. 211 They were Haitian ‘boat people’ and in addition to their names identified themselves by the vessels on which they'd come.

c. transitive. Of a witness or victim of a crime: to pick out or recognize (a suspect), esp. from a line-up or from a group of photographs. Cf. identification parade n. at identification n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1866 C. P. Spencer Last 90 Days of War in N. Carolina iv. 63 The officers promised, if I could identify the robber, to compel him to make restitution. The men, accordingly, were drawn up in line.

1899 E. Forbes Other Way 62 His victim, of about twelve years of age, was brought forward and identified the assailant.

1920 Times 17 July 11 Marshal Hindenburg..could not identify the suspect.

1962 John o' London's 25 Jan. 82/3 A man who identifies a suspect at an identification parade..is called a finger.

1993 New Scientist 4 Dec. 10/2 ‘Photo line-ups’ where witnesses are asked to identify a suspect from a series of photographs.

2009 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 1 Aug. b1 Sanchez identified his attacker as Branch from a photo spread.

6. transitive. To discover, distinguish, isolate; to locate and recognize or describe.

ΚΠ

1802 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 92 Notes & Abstracts 169 Certainly, since the phenomena of lightning and electricity have been so well identified, the idea of a thunderbolt is ridiculous.

1854 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1853 69 On examining a recently-hatched chick, by placing the ear and also the stethoscope on its breast and sides, a precisely similar sound was identified as had been heard within the egg.

1896 J. Watson Mind of Master (1897) vi. 96 Q complete and full-rounded idea of sin grows before the mind. His disciples hold it, for the most part, in unconsciousness; as soon as they identify it, Jesus' idea is verified.

1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 45 After a lapse and a new effort, he identified a pain in his head.

1957 R. H. Thomson Naturally Occurring Quinones iii. 141 Since then Tishler and Sampson have identified vitamin k₂ in the autolysed cells of Bacterium brevis Migula, and Kofler has re-examined alfalfa.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 309 The Beveridge Report on social insurance identified ‘five giants’ in the path of social progress: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness.

2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey v. 78 In 1953..a group of Italian physicists identified a new strange particle in emulsion exposed to cosmic rays.

Derivatives

iˈdentified adj.

ΚΠ

1806 Courier 18 Sept. 1/2 With respect to the resemblance [of a portrait] to Mr. Fox, Mr. Bowyer begs to assure the public that this is deemed..to be by far the most identified of any thing which has ever been taken.

1828 J. F. Cooper Notions Amer. II. 200 The very word constitution implies the control of all those interests which distinguish an identified community.

1957 Panama City (Florida) Herald 25 Nov. 6/1 The official association of an identified member of the Communist apparatus with agencies..of the United States Congress.

1991 Columbia Journalism Rev. Jan. 30/2 There is an aversion to being the identified source that is more acute in Hollywood.

2018 Lowestoft Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 Jan. Everyone has their own identified goals.

iˈdentifying adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [adjective]

monumentala1616

identifying1683

distinguishing1687

marking1795

characterizing1870

identificatory1887

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [adjective] > identifying in a parade

identifying1872

1683 R. Baxter Catechizing of Families xxi. 163 Whether these Spirits do any of them depart as it's Vehicle or Body with the Soul; or if not, whether they be the identifying part that the Soul shall be reunited to first..are things past our understanding.

1698 J. Sergeant Non Vltra 32 We cannot Affirm any thing to be True, but by means of the Copula (is,) in whose Connecting or Identifying Sense, all Truth most Formally consists.

1725 H. Felton Resurrection Same Numerical Body 12 This Identifying Consciousness is made, by this Writer, a thing that adheres to no one determinate Subject.

1815 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 105 353 In using the identifying apparatus, the first thing to be done is, the adjustment of the inner circle to the position it ought to have for the day of observation.

1872 Daily News 27 Apr. 3/4 The identifying warder is now one of the most important of the minor figures in our courts of justice.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 May 6/1 The ornamental identifying medallions furnished to the members for wear during the tour.

1940 Papers Amer. Musicological Soc. 1938 114 Work issued during this period either had no plate number engraved at the foot of the plates, or else used as an identifying device the opus number of the composition.

2005 N. Johnson Big Dead Place i. 12 The South Pole, an abstract natural nonlandmark, has no visible identifying characteristics.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	identify
释义	identifyv. Brit. /ʌɪˈdɛntᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /aɪˈdɛn(t)əˌfaɪ/, /əˈdɛn(t)əˌfaɪ/ Forms: 1600s identifi, 1600s identifie, 1600s– identify. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French identifier. Etymology: < French identifier to treat (several things) as identical, to subsume (several things) under one idea or concept (1610), to model oneself on (a person or thing), to feel oneself to be, or to become, closely associated with or part of (a person or thing) (1766 in identifier à , 1799 in identifier avec , both used reflexively; 1926 in specific use in psychoanalysis) < post-classical Latin identificare to treat as identical (12th cent.; 14th cent. in British sources) < identi- (in identitas identity n.) + classical Latin -ficāre -fy suffix. The senses in branch II. apparently show a development within English, and are not paralleled in French before the late 18th cent. nor in post-classical Latin before the 19th cent.Compare Catalan identificar (1696), Spanish identificar (a1598, apparently earliest used reflexively in sense ‘to become identical’), Portuguese identificar (1685), Italian identificare (a1640, earliest in sense ‘to become identical’). I. Senses relating to association. 1. a. transitive. To regard or treat as identical (with, †to). Also formerly: †to make identical. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > make identical [verb (transitive)] co-essence1594 identify1626 homologate1794 1626 W. Vaughan Golden Fleece xvii. 136 Seeke not to crucifie your Sauiour againe, by seperating your selues from the Communion of your fellow members: for in so doing, you diuide his bodie into parcels, who ought to bee respected entirely one, and identified in your soules, without the least rent or scandall. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. vi. 404 A body..can not be eyther like, or identifyed to nothing. a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Creed (1697) 89 All the divine perfections (being intrinsecal unto and identified with the divine nature or essence). 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxviii. 82 (note) Osiris, whom he identifies with Serapis. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 150 They have incorporated and identified the estate of the church with the mass of private property. 1839 W. Irving Mountjoy in Knickerbocker Mag. Nov. 404 So as to identify the surrounding scenes with those of which I had just been reading. 1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 8 That he identified the glory of God with the gaining fresh converts to the Roman Church. 1907 W. James Pragmatism vii. 267 One misunderstanding of pragmatism is to identify it with positivistic tough-mindedness. 1953 Mariner's Mirror 39 140 The ‘fargood’ may, perhaps, be identified with the beitiáss, or tacking-boom, of the Norsemen. 2000 R. W. Jenson in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 717/1 We can identify the Father with God himself. †b. intransitive. To be made, become, or prove to be identical (with). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > be the same as [verb (intransitive)] > become the same as identify1683 consimilate1716 1683 E. Hooker in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica Pref. Epist. 103 Only as..conjoined with our affections, which commix, coincide, and as it were identifi with that grandest and Divinest Mysterie of Love, sciz. God made Flesh. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 219 An enlightened self-interest, which..they tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public. 1797 C. Lamb Let. 5 Feb. in Lett. C & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 98 Your taste & mine do not Always exactly identify. 2. a. transitive (reflexive). With with: to model oneself on, now esp. unconsciously; to feel oneself to be, or to become, closely associated with or part of. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (reflexive)] join13.. fellowshipa1382 adjoin1533 to put together1556 piece1579 sort1579 mixture1582 troopa1592 consort1597 identify1718 associate1881 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > fellow feeling > fellow-feel [verb] identify1718 society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate for common purpose [verb (reflexive)] ally?a1400 fellowc1425 accompanya1470 associatea1513 band1530 confederate1531 join1535 rely1577 interleague1590 bandy1597 colleague1599 identify1780 solidarize1888 1718 F. de la Pilonnière Reply to Dr Snape's Vindic. ii. §4 34 The compilers of them [the Articles of the Church of England] did Wonders at the Dawn of the Reformation... Indeed, They were good Men, and very unlike Those who Identify themselves with them. 1767 W. Kenrick tr. J. J. Rousseau Misc. Wks. II. 29 If, for example, they were early accustomed to regard the individual only according to its relations with the body of the state, and to be sensible of their own existence..merely as it forms a part of the public; they may at length come to identify themselves in a degree with the great whole. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 92 Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people. 1804 Times 3 Dec. 2/3 They have, in some sort, identified themselves with their Monarch, and participated in his feelings. 1817 W. Hazlitt Characters Shakespear's Plays 347 Shakespear's imagination, by identifying itself with the strongest characters in the most trying circumstances, grappled at once with nature. 1836 Q. Rev. Apr. 136 Pope does not mean, of course, that the reader is wholly to identify himself with the spirit of his author, for that would put an end to criticism altogether. 1874 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr, Soc. N. Y. 6 179 He gave himself to this service by almost identifying himself with the population. He left civilization behind him and adopted the manners of the natives; he almost lived as the savages live. 1913 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Interpretation of Dreams iv. 126 If she has put herself in the place of her friend, or, as we may say, has identified herself with her friend. 1958 J. M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour v. 40 Other investigators have studied the beliefs of children who..‘identify’ themselves with their parents—i.e. wish to be liked by them, wish to resemble them. 1972 Where Jan. 18/2 Thus the parents, in conversation at home, are able to identify themselves with the place and people under discussion. 2004 M. Haag & V. Haag Rough Guide to Da Vinci Code 58 Cleopatra deliberately identified herself with Isis, and called herself the New Isis. b. intransitive. With with: in same sense. ΚΠ 1940 ‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 51 Sam Weller, Mark Tapley, Clara Peggotty..identify with their master's family. 1958 Observer 2 Feb. 14/3 Readers can immediately identify with her nice puzzled hero. 1967 G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 81 Because we are trained to give psychological and moral credence to the imaginary..we may find it more difficult to identify with the real world. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) 9 Some of the indigenous peoples and the anthropologists identifying with them go to the opposite extreme. They insist that past indigenous peoples were (and modern ones still are) gentle and ecologically wise stewards of their environments. c. intransitive. With the object of association unspecified or implied by the context. ΚΠ 1959 Listener 31 Dec. 1174/2 An engaging series of attempts and failures to ‘identify’, as cricket-master at a prep school, or as a journalist on a go-getting daily. 1968 Blues Unlimited Sept. 8 Finally Tina came on and tore the joint up. She signified, the women identified and the men just drooled. 1969 Times 17 Oct. 18/5 Everyone identified madly and Biba's knew no failure. 2008 H. J. Ruff How to Prosper during Coming Bad Years Pref. p. xvii Up to your ears in debt? Broke? Here I can really identify. I grew up broke. d. intransitive. With as. To consider or describe oneself as belonging to a particular category or group of people. ΚΠ 1975 R. Green in Arch. Sexual Behavior 4 339 If designated female and raised as female, the child will identify as female. 1987 H. I. Safa in L. Mullings Cities U.S. xi. 261 They identified as working class and came out of a classic working-class tradition. 1998 Stud. Amer. Indian Lit. 10 22 As is consistent with his alternative gender identity, James William identifies as female. 2008 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen (Electronic ed.) b2 I've identified as a Democrat all my life until this Congress. 2015 P. Lenihan et al. in C. Richards & M. J. Barker Palgrave Handbk. Psychol. Sexuality & Gender viii. 132 For trans people.., identifying as asexual can sidestep binary, cisgendered prejudice against their sexuality. 3. transitive. With with: to regard as sharing, or cause to share, interests, feelings, principles, actions, etc.; to associate closely or completely. Chiefly passive. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > make identical [verb (transitive)] > associate inseparably identify1831 1831 W. Scott Abbot (new ed.) I. Introd. p. vi They became identified with the literature of their country. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty ii. 31 A legislature or an executive, not identified in interest with the people. 1866 Visct. Strangford Select. from Writings (1869) I. 102 A Crimean peace..is identified with the name of Stratford Canning. 1916 Times Hist. War 31 Oct. 407/2 Rumanian interests would..have become wholly identified with those of the Central European bloc but for the fact that between them loomed the question of Rumania irredenta. 1964 New Statesman 17 Apr. 592/3 The Maoists are blind not to see this and to identify their cause with a nostalgia for the Stalin epoch. 2006 D. Edgerton Shock of Old (2008) iii. 70 A number of analysts have, perversely, identified this growth in service employment with the rise of an ‘information society’. II. Senses relating to categorization or description. 4. transitive. To serve as a means of identification for; to show something or somebody to be. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > identify or distinguish [verb (transitive)] to take knowledge ofa1400 character1555 distinguish1600 characterizea1602 remark1633 identify1675 stamp1837 dispunct1842 keynote1877 finger1945 1675 G. Harvey Dis. of London iv. 36 The symptoms that Identifie Diseases, do immediately, and per se, emanate from them, in or near the parts affected. 1774 F. Hargrave Argument in Def. Lit. Prop. 18 One literary composition is distinguishable from another; and therefore each has its marks and bounds to identify it. 1775 W. Kenrick & J. Murdoch tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals II. 334 The only character which distinguishes or identifies a species, is the faculty of producing and perpetuating animals of that species. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda III. xxvii. 194 There was one slight mark, however, which, he said, would identify his child more satisfactorily to his own mind, than any collateral proofs. 1841 H. T. Tuckerman Rambles & Reveries 162 The natural scenery, the climate and the dialect and manners of the people are, alone, sufficient strongly to identify the different towns. 1886 J. Ward in Encycl. Brit. XX. 62/2 The voice perceived identifies Jacob, at the same time the hands identify Esau. 1924 Library Mar. 255 The manuscripts are identified in the catalogue by the first words of the second leaf, the ‘probatory words’. 1959 Times 8 Dec. 13/6 Their..speech would identify them as ‘Scousers’ wherever English is recognized. 2000 S. Bellow Ravelstein 122 Coming home again the following night I found the house filled with large, colored stickum circles—the green identified my possessions, the salmon-colored were glued to hers. 5. a. transitive. To ascertain or assert what a thing or who a person is; to determine the identity of; to recognize as belonging to a particular category or kind; to refer (a plant, animal, or mineral specimen) to its correct species. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > recognition > recognize, acknowledge [verb (transitive)] acknowOE anyeteOE i-kenc1000 yknowOE yknowOE knowOE seeOE kenc1275 knowledgec1330 to take knowledge ofa1400 perceive1549 agnize1568 reknowledge1611 recognize1725 reconnoitre1729 identify1746 recognizate1799 the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] > identify or ascertain conditionate1646 identify1746 ID1944 1746 T. Shaw Suppl. to Trav. & Observ. vi. 74 It is not likely..that so noted an Animal as the Antilope, should want a proper and peculiar Appelation to identify and distinguish it, from all other horned Quadrupeds. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1830) IV. xxiii. 306 All indictments must set forth the christian name, sirname [etc.]..of the offender: and all this to identify his person. 1847 Bewick's Hist. Brit. Birds (new ed.) I. 167 The above figure..it is hoped is sufficiently accurate to enable the ornithologist to identify this very small bird. 1855 A. Bain Senses & Intellect ii. ii. 460 A sailor identifies a speck in the horizon as a ship of particular build. 1889 Athenæum 28 Sept. 421/1 Mr. Round..has also identified as belonging to the reign of Stephen an elaborate hidated survey. 1939 J. A. Schumpeter Business Cycles I. iii. 84 Innovation is possible without anything we should identify as invention, and invention does not necessarily induce innovation. 1957 Jrnl. Protozool. 4 176 The amoeba was identified as a species of Acanthamoeba. 1991 Adirondack June 79/1 If no branch is available, just yell as loud as you can so the bear can identify you as a human. 2006 CXpress (S. Afr.) 13 Dec. 56/3 I was able to identify the Dune Crow-berry (Rhus crenata)—a sprawling shrub distinguishable by the trifoliate leaves. b. transitive (reflexive). To prove, reveal, or declare one's identity. ΚΠ 1799 Monthly Rev. Apr. 480 We must further request this gentleman to authenticate his communication by farther identifying himself, giving his place of residence, &c. a1839 J. Chitty Precedents in Pleading (1847) 3 The misnomer of the plaintiff..is no ground of nonsuit, if he identify himself as the real creditor or claimant. 1860 F. H. Smith My Experience 44 I cannot identify myself more to you than I have done. You know I was devoted to you when I lived in the body. 1906 J. London White Fang v. v. 317 Inoffensive ranchers in remote valleys were held up by armed men and compelled to identify themselves. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Aug. 1/2 Hawkins..identified himself as a ‘pay-off man’ in the ‘numbers business’. 1991 C. Hiaasen Native Tongue (1992) xxvi. 301 ‘The caller identified himself’..‘By name?’ The blockhead! Molly thought. 2007 E. Danticat Brother, I'm Dying ii. xviii. 211 They were Haitian ‘boat people’ and in addition to their names identified themselves by the vessels on which they'd come. c. transitive. Of a witness or victim of a crime: to pick out or recognize (a suspect), esp. from a line-up or from a group of photographs. Cf. identification parade n. at identification n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1866 C. P. Spencer Last 90 Days of War in N. Carolina iv. 63 The officers promised, if I could identify the robber, to compel him to make restitution. The men, accordingly, were drawn up in line. 1899 E. Forbes Other Way 62 His victim, of about twelve years of age, was brought forward and identified the assailant. 1920 Times 17 July 11 Marshal Hindenburg..could not identify the suspect. 1962 John o' London's 25 Jan. 82/3 A man who identifies a suspect at an identification parade..is called a finger. 1993 New Scientist 4 Dec. 10/2 ‘Photo line-ups’ where witnesses are asked to identify a suspect from a series of photographs. 2009 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 1 Aug. b1 Sanchez identified his attacker as Branch from a photo spread. 6. transitive. To discover, distinguish, isolate; to locate and recognize or describe. ΚΠ 1802 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 92 Notes & Abstracts 169 Certainly, since the phenomena of lightning and electricity have been so well identified, the idea of a thunderbolt is ridiculous. 1854 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1853 69 On examining a recently-hatched chick, by placing the ear and also the stethoscope on its breast and sides, a precisely similar sound was identified as had been heard within the egg. 1896 J. Watson Mind of Master (1897) vi. 96 Q complete and full-rounded idea of sin grows before the mind. His disciples hold it, for the most part, in unconsciousness; as soon as they identify it, Jesus' idea is verified. 1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 45 After a lapse and a new effort, he identified a pain in his head. 1957 R. H. Thomson Naturally Occurring Quinones iii. 141 Since then Tishler and Sampson have identified vitamin k₂ in the autolysed cells of Bacterium brevis Migula, and Kofler has re-examined alfalfa. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 309 The Beveridge Report on social insurance identified ‘five giants’ in the path of social progress: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness. 2002 F. Close et al. Particle Odyssey v. 78 In 1953..a group of Italian physicists identified a new strange particle in emulsion exposed to cosmic rays. Derivatives iˈdentified adj. ΚΠ 1806 Courier 18 Sept. 1/2 With respect to the resemblance [of a portrait] to Mr. Fox, Mr. Bowyer begs to assure the public that this is deemed..to be by far the most identified of any thing which has ever been taken. 1828 J. F. Cooper Notions Amer. II. 200 The very word constitution implies the control of all those interests which distinguish an identified community. 1957 Panama City (Florida) Herald 25 Nov. 6/1 The official association of an identified member of the Communist apparatus with agencies..of the United States Congress. 1991 Columbia Journalism Rev. Jan. 30/2 There is an aversion to being the identified source that is more acute in Hollywood. 2018 Lowestoft Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 Jan. Everyone has their own identified goals. iˈdentifying adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [adjective] monumentala1616 identifying1683 distinguishing1687 marking1795 characterizing1870 identificatory1887 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [adjective] > identifying in a parade identifying1872 1683 R. Baxter Catechizing of Families xxi. 163 Whether these Spirits do any of them depart as it's Vehicle or Body with the Soul; or if not, whether they be the identifying part that the Soul shall be reunited to first..are things past our understanding. 1698 J. Sergeant Non Vltra 32 We cannot Affirm any thing to be True, but by means of the Copula (is,) in whose Connecting or Identifying Sense, all Truth most Formally consists. 1725 H. Felton Resurrection Same Numerical Body 12 This Identifying Consciousness is made, by this Writer, a thing that adheres to no one determinate Subject. 1815 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 105 353 In using the identifying apparatus, the first thing to be done is, the adjustment of the inner circle to the position it ought to have for the day of observation. 1872 Daily News 27 Apr. 3/4 The identifying warder is now one of the most important of the minor figures in our courts of justice. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 May 6/1 The ornamental identifying medallions furnished to the members for wear during the tour. 1940 Papers Amer. Musicological Soc. 1938 114 Work issued during this period either had no plate number engraved at the foot of the plates, or else used as an identifying device the opus number of the composition. 2005 N. Johnson Big Dead Place i. 12 The South Pole, an abstract natural nonlandmark, has no visible identifying characteristics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1626
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