Ac-knōw', v. t.

(ak-nō'), v. t. [Prefix a and know.] To know; to recognize. [Obs.] “You will not be acknown, sir.” B. Jonson.

To be acknown of, or on, to acknowledge. [Obs.] Shak.

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.