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Acknowledge   /æknˈɑlɪdʒ/  /ɪknˈɑlɪdʒ/   Listen
Acknowledge

verb
(past & past part. acknowledged; pres. part. acknowledging)
1.
Declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of.  Synonym: admit.  "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten"
2.
Report the receipt of.  Synonym: receipt.
3.
Express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with.  Synonym: notice.  "She acknowledged his complement with a smile" , "It is important to acknowledge the work of others in one's own writing"
4.
Express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for.  Synonyms: recognise, recognize.
5.
Accept as legally binding and valid.
6.
Accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority.  Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize.  "We do not recognize your gods"



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"Acknowledge" Quotes from Famous Books



... superiority in the matter; but this affront was personal to them as well as to their beloved leader. Allen, with his arms akimbo and fire flashing from his eyes faced the suave and cold intruder. "Sir!" he exclaimed, "I do not care to see your commission, nor do I acknowledge your authority. I bear a commission from a higher court and recognize an ...
— With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga • W. Bert Foster

... Meester Fielt, why will you seet in the box and talk with your overcoat on the chair to make Camille laugh who is dying on the stage? Ah, Meester Fielt, you are a very bad man, but I lof you, don't we, Charlie?" And the count always stopped rolling a cigarette long enough to acknowledge that Field was their dearest friend and that they both loved him, no matter what he did. Next to his wife, the count was devoted to politics, which he discusses with all the warmth and gesticulations of a Frenchman and the intelligence of a ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... Mtanga, 'in the world beyond the grave, is represented as assigning to spirits their proper places,' whether for ethical reasons or not we are not informed.[6] Santos (1586) says 'they acknowledge a God who, both in this world and the next, measures retribution for the good or evil done ...
— The Making of Religion • Andrew Lang

... understand the national intent, as expressed in the Emancipation Proclamation and the Constitutional Amendment. I did not anywhere find a man who could see that laws should be applicable to all persons alike; and hence even the best men hold that each State must have a negro code. They acknowledge the overthrow of the special servitude of man to man, but seek through these codes to establish the general servitude of man to the commonwealth. I had much talk with intelligent gentlemen in various sections, and particularly with such as I met during the conventions at Columbia and Milledgeville, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various

... or in some remarkable specialty, but in all that rounds out the perfect engineer, whether natural characteristics, professional training, or the well digested results of long and valuable experience, we look in vain for his superior, and those who knew him best will hesitate to acknowledge his equal.—Journal of the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 • Various


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