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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Acknow \Ac*know"\ ([a^]k*n[=o]"), verb (used with an object) [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.
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