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Webster 1913 Edition
Acknow
Ac-know′
(ăk-nō′)
, Verb.
T.
[Pref.
a-
+ know
; AS. oncnāwan
.] 1.
To recognize.
[Obs.]
“You will not be acknown, sir.” B. Jonson.
2.
To acknowledge; to confess.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
To be acknown
(often with of or on), to acknowledge; to confess.
[Obs.]
We say of a stubborn body that standeth still in the denying of his fault, This man will not acknowledge his fault, or, He will not
be acknown
of his fault. Sir T. More.