I. A recognition, acknowledgment, admission, acceptance: “admissio: bonorum possessionis,” Dig. 38, 15, 5 (cf. agnosco, II.); a recognizing: “cadaveris,” Plin. 10, 70, 90, § 194: “nullus interesset alienus agnitioni mutuae,” Vulg. Gen. 45, 1.—
II. A knowing, perceiving, apprehending, knowledge, in gen.: ad agnitionem animi, for the knowledge of the nature of mind, * Cic. N. D. 1, 1 Creuz: “ut impleamini agnitione,” Vulg. Col. 1, 9; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 8; Cassian. Incarn. 4, 2; Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 155.