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To be acknown

Acknow \Ac*know"\ ([a^]k*n[=o]"), 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.