An obsolete Scottish verb meaning to discern or distinguish — to recognize a difference between things. Likely derived from Latin 'dignoscere' (to distinguish, tell apart). No longer in active use; confined to historical Scottish legal texts and scholarly documents of earlier centuries. Of etymological interest as a direct Latin borrowing into Scots.
The scholar claimed he could dignosce the original manuscript from any later copy by the ink color alone.
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(obsolete, Scotland) to discern.
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