recognizern.

1608 S. Ward Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. xi. 25 The Recognisers of Gratian in their Annotations..take that which is in the Codice Moguntino to be that of Dionysus Exiguus.

1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xxv. 216 Our Lay laws have been the Recognizers of their Rights, and the Assertors of their Spiritual Jurisdictions.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 166 I find no warrant for our being such earnest Recognizers of a controverted Title.

1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 130 Reason is the appointed recognizer within us, and must be the canon, the corrector, the standard universal for rational beings.

1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. xiv. 341 A Poet after his sort, or recogniser and delineator of the Beautiful.

1887 R. Browning C. Avison in Parleyings viii With form enough to know and name it by For any recognizer sure of ken And sharp of ear.

1912 Times 2 Oct. 29/2 The enthusiastic recognizer of distinguished service pays the Birmingham jeweller the compliment of coming to him instinctively for the thing of beauty.

1953 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 18 486/1 Not all of these children were ‘recognized’ by their fathers, many disappeared into Indonesian society; sometimes professional ‘recognizers’..did the job.

2007 Entrepreneurship (Nexis) Sept. 713 Why some individuals and not others recognize certain opportunities... This question..has also induced a predominant focus on who the opportunity ‘recognizers’ are and how they think or what they do.

1949 E. C. Berkeley Giant Brains xi. 186 We can foresee a recognizing machine with very general powers. Suppose that we call it an automatic recognizer.

1952 Electronics Aug. 117/3 At the receiving end, the recognizer continuously monitors the wave train from the common medium as it travels down the delay line.

1958 Listener 11 Dec. 984/2 One aspect of this work..is that of Drs. Ahmed and Fatehchand..on the direct recognition of the spoken word [by a computer]... It is safe to predict that a recognizer of 95 per cent. accuracy could be built within five years.

1973 Physics Bull. May 281/1 Ideally the recognizer should perform this action irrespective of the speaker and the acoustic environment in which he is speaking.

1992 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Apr. 32/3 To better handle large character sets, the recognizer described here is writer-dependent, that is, the writer must both train the system and adapt to it.

2001 S. Johnson Emergence i. 55 The accuracy..depended on the accuracy of the letter recognizers.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 Oct. iii. 12/2 The company's package, called ID Works, includes a fingerprint reader, an iris scanner and a face recognizer.