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/aɪdˈɛntəfˌaɪ/ /aɪdˈɛnəfˌaɪ/ Listen

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Identify v. t. (past & past part. identified; pres. part. identifying)

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation. "Every precaution is taken to identify the interests of the people and of the rulers." "Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people."

To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.

Identify v. i.

To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc. (Obs. or R.)

To coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.; to associate oneself in name, goals, or feelings; usually used with with; as, he identified with the grief she felt at her father's death. "An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... by the very vividness of their perception of the supernatural.(105) Likewise the intuitive faculty, if it be regarded as giving a noble grasp over the fact of God as an infinite Spirit, may cause the mind to relax its hold on the idea of the Divine Personality, and fall into Pantheism, and identify God with the universe, not by degrading spirit to matter, but by elevating matter to spirit.(106) Or, instead of allowing experience and revelation to develop into conceptions of the fundamental truth whose existence it perceives, ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... pits to conceal their captives when close pursuit is apprehended, which they cover with earth and leaves. It may be asked, as the persons are known, why not bring them to justice? We may reply, that notwithstanding we could bring some of the persons last alluded to, to identify their kidnappers, yet their evidence, on account of their color, is not allowed to be received in the Courts of Slaveholding States. Many other instances have occured: and many instances of persons who were entitled to their freedom after serving a limited time, being sold into ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various

... memory, or rather association, belongs to the Church street and the houses in the neighbourhood. There have been many attempts made by Miss Austen's readers to identify Highbury, "the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town" of Emma, with some Surrey town or village. There is a school of serious students who place it at Esher; another band of enthusiasts ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... he identify those arid, parched, glinting rocks with the Basque landscape, with the humid, green, shaded countryside of Azpeitia? It was easy to see that the anterior image of a landscape existing in the mind of that priest, provided ...

— Youth and Egolatry • Pio Baroja

... of the other, or he might have missed seeing the skulking figure which slipped down into the ravine as he made the turn at the far end of the bridge—a figure which had no other response to his loud 'Hola!' than a short cough, hurriedly choked back. He could not see the face or identify the figure, but he knew the cough. He had heard it a hundred times; and, saying to himself, 'I'll find fellers enough at the tavern, but there's one I won't find there and that's John Scoville,' he whipped his horse up the hill and ...

— Dark Hollow • Anna Katharine Green

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