ppl. a. arch. [f. prec. + -ED.] Recognized, acknowledged.
1535. Legh, in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1822), I. I. 216. The king … of late agnized & declared Supreme Head of the Church.
1735–8. Ld. Bolingbroke, Diss. on Parties, 99. A Title … agnized, or recognized, by his Parliament.
1790. [See AGNIZE v. 1.]
