Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Acknow

Acknow (ak*nō") , transitive verb

[Prefix a- + know; Anglo-Saxon oncnāwan.]

1.
To recognize. [Obsolete]
You will not be acknown, sir. — B. Jonson
2.
To acknowledge; to confess. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
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
Collocations (1)
To be acknown , to acknowledge; to confess. [Obsolete]