Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To know; recognize.
- To acknowledge; own; confess. Ayenbyte of Inwyt (1340, ed. Morris).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To confess; to acknowledge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
know about; haveknowledge of;recognise ;understand ; beaware (of); beknowledgeable about. - verb transitive To
acknowledge ;own ;confess .
Etymologies
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From Middle English beknowen, biknowen, from Old English becnāwan ("to know, know about"), equivalent to be- + know. Cognate with Old High German bichnāan ("to recognise, see").
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Examples
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And prize fair poesy and sweet musick hear * And shun the 'say' and naught of 'said' beknow:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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3.31.3: Take not for thine: nor yet thy self as thine beknow.
AnWulf commented on the word beknow
(a) To know or realize (sth.), be aware of; realize
(b) to recognize (sb.); beknown: known, acquainted.
November 25, 2011