recognitory adjective3 •Pertaining to, or connected with, recognition. •Pertaining to recognizing (matching a current perception with a memory).A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous. — 1823 •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
