Acknowledge

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To own with gratitude or as a benefit or an obligation; as, to acknowledge a favor, the receipt of a letter.

II. Acknowledge ·vt To own or recognize in a particular character or relationship; to admit the claims or authority of; to give recognition to.

III. Acknowledge ·vt To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God.

IV. Acknowledge ·vt To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledgea deed.

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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.