Acknown

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    past participle of acknow; Recognized, confessed, disclosed, revealed, realized obsolete

    "Three years in his employment a secret agent in the Post Office Department, who obtained for him the first knowledge of the star route frauds, and placed it at his disposal before it Acknown to be suspected by either the public or the Government."

  2. 2
    past participle of acknow; Acknowledged; confessed (often with "of" or "on"), revealed, disclosed, realized obsolete

    "Be not acknown on't: I have use for it."

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"Three years in his employment a secret agent in the Post Office Department, who obtained for him the first knowledge of the star route frauds, and placed it at his disposal before it Acknown to be suspected by either the public or the Government."

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