The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acknow \Ac*know"\ ([a^]k*n[=o]"), v. t. [Pref. a- + know; AS. oncn[=a]wan.]
To recognize. [Obs.] ``You will not be acknown, sir.''
--B. Jonson.-
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.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To recognize. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To acknowledge; confess (often with "of" or "on"), reveal, disclose, realize
Usage examples of "acknow".
Across the thirty feet that separated them, Rhavas—no, Avshar—dipped his head to the tribune in derisive acknow ledgement of his astuteness.
The valet dipped his head in phlegmatic acknow ledgment, and noted the order on the autoaccept crossfile.