recognitory

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition.
   • A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous. - 1823, Charles Lamb, “Distant Correspondents”, in Essays of Elia, London: Moxon, published 1836, page 244:
   • […] 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...
   • Glancing across to our corner, he nodded to Francis, a flashing-eyed, recognitory nod, as from one power to another. - 1970, C. P. Snow, chapter 5, in Last Things, New York: Scribner, page 43:

   1. Pertaining to recognizing (matching a current perception with a memory).

   2. Pertaining to recognizing (acknowledging the existence, status or validity of something).

      • […] 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. - 1841, Archibald Boyd,...