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acknowledged, ppl. a.|ækˈnɒlɪdʒd| [f. as prec. + -ed.] Recognized, confessed, owned; admitted as true, valid, or authoritative.
1769Junius Lett. iii. 19 The acknowledged care and abilities of the adjutant-general. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. 87 These five youths, the acknowledged successors of Constantine. 1810Coleridge Friend (1865) 122 To do anything which the acknowledged laws of God have forbidden me to do. 1860Tyndall Glaciers i. §24. 168 Their pleasure is that of overcoming acknowledged difficulties. 1868Geo. Eliot F. Holt 14 To rule in virtue of acknowledged superiority. |