identify
verb (used with object)
to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of.
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The sounding syllables passed from his lips with a faint, far echo which he found vaguely but unidentifiably familiar.
From White Ashes by Sidney R. (Sidney Robinson) Kennedy