\Ac*know"\, 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.