acknowledgment, or acknowledgement

[ACKNOWLEDGE.] The act of acknowledging, the state of being acknowledged, or the thing acknowledged. A. Ordinary Language: 1. (Spec.): The act of acknowledging a trifling mistake, or a more serious fault, sin, or crime. Froude : Hin acknowledgment of fault by Henry." an 2. The admi ion of the truth of a statement, a narrative, a doctrine, or tenet, especially if it be for one's apparent self-interest to controvert it. "The advocates of the Government had been by universal acknowledgment overmatched in the contest."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. viii. to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ."- Col. ii. 2. 3. The admi ion of the position and claims of any Being or person; also such homage or other action as the admi ion thus made implies. he himself, the Pope said, could not make advances without some kind of submi ion; but a single act of acknowledgment was all which he required."-Froude: Hist. Eng . , ch. vii. 4. The admi ion of having received money, whether owing to one or bestowed as a gift; the admi ion of having received from one a benefit of any kind; also ( spec .), the receipt for such money, the expre ion of gratitude for such favour. the seeming acknowledgment of Henry's to use the benefits conferred on us by M. Comte without acknowledgments." - Martin eau : Comte's Positive Philosophy , Preface, vi, services"-Froude: Hist. Eng., ch. xii. B. Technically : 1. Law : The admi ion of an act to take the responsibility of it, or the owning of a legal deed to give it validity. No verbal acknowledgment of a debt more than six years old will bar the operation of the statute of limitation [LIMITATION]; it requires the acknowledgment to be in writing. 2. Feudal Custom . Acknowledgment money: Money paid in some parts of England as a recognition of the new lord who succeeds to an estate on the death of his predece or. *ăc-known', pa. par. [ACKNOW.]