recognizedadj.

1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely ii. 114 The Emperor..would have his Son a recogniz'd King of Hungary, to facilitate this Design.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 56 The paper securities..held out as a currency..in lieu of the two great recognized species that represent the lasting conventional credit of mankind. View more context for this quotation

1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. viii. 111 The nice etiquette, which was observed between recognised states, and non-recognised states, was really excessively amusing.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 93 The three centuries and a half during which classical paganism was the recognised religion of the empire.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 608 The real and only recognized name of the united nation.

1901 B. Harrison in N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 184 If the World Powers have any recognized creed, it is that it is their duty as ‘trustees for humanity’ to take over the territories of all the weak and decaying nations.

1966 Rep. Comm. Inq. (Univ. of Oxf.) I. i. 47 We recommend that the existing university category of ‘Recognized Student’ should be revised.

2006 New Yorker 24 Apr. 99/2 You give him the now quaint but still widely recognized ‘roll down your window’ signal.

1843 Ecclesiologist Aug. 93 The first plot..has been already laid out in the recognised terms Saxon and Norman, which latter style is also recognisedly divided into early and late.

1875 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera V. xlix. 7 The consequences of recognizedly vicious conduct.

1923 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 53 162 Garlic has recognizedly caustic properties.

1996 Oxf. Mag. No. 135. 2/1 Assurances given only thirty years ago on the basis of a recognisedly authoritative report.