The Collaborative International Dictionary
acknowledge \ac*knowl"edge\ ([a^]k*n[o^]l"[e^]j), v. t. [imp. & p. p. acknowledged ([a^]k*n[o^]l"[e^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. acknowledging ([a^]k*n[o^]l"[e^]j*[i^]ng).] [Prob. fr. pref. a- + the verb knowledge. See Knowledge, and cf. Acknow.]
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To own or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.
I acknowledge my transgressions.
--Ps. li. 3.For ends generally acknowledged to be good.
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To own or recognize in a particular character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him.
--Prov. iii. 6.By my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee.
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To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter.
They his gifts acknowledged none.
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To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledge a deed.
Syn: To avow; proclaim; recognize; own; admit; allow; concede; confess.
Usage: Acknowledge, Recognize. Acknowledge is opposed to keep back, or conceal, and supposes that something had been previously known to us (though perhaps not to others) which we now feel bound to lay open or make public. Thus, a man acknowledges a secret marriage; one who has done wrong acknowledges his fault; and author acknowledges his obligation to those who have aided him; we acknowledge our ignorance. Recognize supposes that we have either forgotten or not had the evidence of a thing distinctly before our minds, but that now we know it (as it were) anew, or receive and admit in on the ground of the evidence it brings. Thus, we recognize a friend after a long absence. We recognize facts, principles, truths, etc., when their evidence is brought up fresh to the mind; as, bad men usually recognize the providence of God in seasons of danger. A foreign minister, consul, or agent, of any kind, is recognized on the ground of his producing satisfactory credentials. See also Confess.
acknowledged \ac*knowl"edged\ ([a^]k*n[o^]l"[e^]jd) adj. Generally accepted or recognized as correct or reasonable. Opposite of unacknowledged. [Narrower terms: given, granted; unquestionable (vs. questionable)] Also See: known.
Syn: accepted, recognized
Wiktionary
Generally accepted, recognized or admitted. v
1 (en-past of: acknowledg) 2 (en-past of: acknowledge)
WordNet
adj. recognized or made known or admitted; "the acknowledged leader of the community"; "a woman of acknowledged accomplishments"; "his acknowledged error" [ant: unacknowledged]
generally accepted
Usage examples of "acknowledged".
In a second she was giving her own breakfast to Abo, who neither thanked her or acknowledged her presence.
Under the reign of Justinian, they acknowledged the god and the emperor of the Romans, and seven fortresses were built in the most accessible passages, to exclude the ambition of the Persian monarch.
The Slocum syndicate had just broken ground for a luxury development in the opposite direction on acreage safely within Magnolia city limits, Laura acknowledged.
His lordship adduced examples from history, to show that the principle of change had been often acknowledged, and the suffrage withdrawn and conferred on various occasions.
I have acknowledged his flair for adventurist opportunities in military strategy.
The helmsman acknowledged and the rudder, far aft, turned in the white wake of the stern.
During the life of Alp Arslan, his eldest son had been acknowledged as the future sultan of the Turks.
But when they recollected the sanguinary list of murders, of executions, and of massacres, which stain almost every page of the Jewish annals, they acknowledged that the barbarians of Palestine had exercised as much compassion towards their idolatrous enemies, as they had ever shown to their friends or countrymen.
Hence, while he has endeavored truly to depict--or to let those who made history at the time help him to depict--the enormity of the offence of the armed Rebellion and of the heresies and plottings of certain Southern leaders precipitating it, yet not one word will be found, herein, condemnatory of those who, with manly candor, soldierly courage, and true patriotism, acknowledged that error when the ultimate arbitrament of the sword had decided against them.
In the course of the session I shall probably have occasion to request you to provide indemnification to claimants where decrees of restitution have been rendered and damages awarded by admiralty courts, and in other cases where this government may be acknowledged to be liable in principle and where the amount of that liability has been ascertained by an informal arbitration.
And if asked, he acknowledged harboring an atypical indifference to religion.
My system, which I thought proof against every accident, had vanished: I acknowledged an avenging God who had waited for this opportunity of punishing me at one blow for all my sins, and of annihilating me, in order to put an end to my want of faith.
It was also the first time in the history of their relationship that the ayatollah had acknowledged that he was not the final decision maker on Operation Dawa.
The old man was mightily taken with this insinuation, and acknowledged that it would give him pleasure to be a bailie next year.
Surajah Dowlat, and, with the same ceremony, to substitute Ali Khan in his room, who was publicly acknowledged by the people as suba, or viceroy, of the provinces of Bengal, Banar, and Orixa.