Ac‐know″ (ăk‐nō″), v. t. [Pref. a- + know; AS. oncnāwan.] 1. To recognize. “You will not be acknown, sir.” B. Jonson.
2. To acknowledge; to confess. Chaucer.
To be acknown (often with of or on), to acknowledge; to confess.
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.