acknow

Ac*know", v. t. Etym: [Pref. a- + know; AS. oncnawan.] 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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