Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Acknow"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Acknow \Ac*know"\, v. t. [Pref. a- + know; AS. oncn[=a]wan.]
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.


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