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Verb
acknowledg (third-person singular simple present acknowledges, present participle acknowledging, simple past and past participle acknowledged)
- Obsolete form of acknowledge.
- 1588?, Robert Browne, “A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God” in Cartwrightiana, ed. Albert Peel and Leland Henry Carlson (1951, published for the Sir Halley Stewart Trust by Allen and Unwin), page 228
- If anie do dislike the superstitious & needles cærimonies in ordination & yet also acknowledg that the Byshops may call, authorise, trie, confirme, & warrant by testimonie the sufficiencie of ministers / what greuous synne is it.
1638 November 21, Declinator and Protestation of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of the Church of Scotland:We acknowledg and profess, as becometh good Christians and faithful Subjects, that his Majesty hath Authority, by his Prerogative Roial, to call Assemblies [...].
1700, Matthieu Souverain, Platonism unveil'd: or, An essay concerning the notions and opinions of Plato, s.n., pages 89–90:Why ſhould we not acknowledg at the ſame time, that the over-curious Platoniſm of the ſame Fathers has led ’em into thoſe extravagant Deſcriptions, whereby they have made a ſecond God, a Perſon of the Word or Logos, a Son begotten before Ages, and incarnate in time?