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