Definition of Acknaw
Ac*know" (&?;), v. 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (obsolete) To recognize.
- Quotations
- : You will not be acknown, sir. - Ben Jonson
- (obsolete): To acknowledge; to confess (often with "of" or "on") - Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Quotations
- : 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 Thomas More
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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