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<hw>Ag*ni"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>agnitio</ets>, fr. <ets>agnoscere</ets>. See <er>Notion</er>.]</ety> <def>Acknowledgment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Grafton.</i>

<h1>Agnize</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag*nize"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Formed like <ets>recognize</ets>, fr. L. <ets>agnoscere</ets>.]</ety> <def>To recognize; to acknowledge.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<blockquote>I do <b>agnize</b> a natural and prompt alacrity. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Agnoiolgy</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag`noi*ol"*gy</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ ignorance + <ets>-logy</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.</def>

<h1>Agnomen</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag*no"men</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.; <ets>ad + nomen</ets> name.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; <as>as, Publius Caius Scipio <ex>Africanus</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; <as>as, Aristides <ex>the Just</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Agnominate</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag*nom"i*nate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To name.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Agnomination</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag*nom`i*na"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>agnominatio</ets>. See <er>Agnomen</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A surname.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Minsheu.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.</def>

<h1>Agnostic</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag*nos"tic</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ priv. + <?/ knowing, <?/ to know.]</ety> <def>Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Ag*nos"tic*al*ly</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Agnostic</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag*nos"tic</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.</def>

<h1>Agnosticism</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag*nos"ti*cism</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.</def> Specifically: <fld>(Theol.)</fld> <def>The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.</def>

<h1>Agnus</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag"nus</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. E. <plw>Agnuses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>; L. <plw>Agni</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., a lamb.]</ety> <def>Agnus Dei.</def>

<h1>Agnus castus</h1> <Xpage=33>

<hw>Ag"nus cas"tus</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>. <ety>[Gr. <?/ a willowlike tree, used at a religious festival; confused with <?/ holy, chaste.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A species of <spn>Vitex</spn> <spn>(V. agnus castus)</spn>; the chaste tree.</def>

<i>Loudon.</i>

<blockquote>And wreaths of <b>agnus castus</b> others bore. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>