Let us identify, let us incorporate ourselves with the people.
Burke.
2. To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something
described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.
I*den"ti*fy (?), v. i. To become the same; to coalesce in interest,
purpose, use, effect, etc. [Obs. or R.]
An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they
tell us will identify with an interest more enlarged and public.
Burke.
I*den"tism (?), n. [See Identity.] (Metaph.) The doctrine taught by
Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical
in the Absolute; -- called also the system or doctrine of identity.
I*den"ti*ty (?), n.; pl. Identities (#). [F. identité, LL. identitas,
fr. L. idem the same, from the root of is he, that; cf. Skr. idam this.
Cf. Item.] 1. The state or quality of being identical, or the same;
sameness.
Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not
between things themselves.
Sir W. Hamilton.
2. The condition of being the same with something described or
asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the
identity of stolen goods.