acknowledge Copy link Outline 1. agnosco, nōvi, nĭtum, 3 (with acc. of object, but not inf.)2. făteor, confĭteor3. suscĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (to take up and so acknowledge offspring)4. tollo, sustŭli, sublātum, 3 (in same sense as suscipio) • acknowledge: i. e. to admit, own, confess: 1. agnosco, nōvi, nĭtum, 3 (with acc. of object, but not inf.): to a. a charge, crimen agn., Cic.: to a. a debt, aes alienum agn., Ulp.: to a. an infant, infantem agn., Suet.: v. to recognise. 2. făteor, confĭteor: v. to confess. 3. suscĭpio, cēpi, ceptum, 3 (to take up and so acknowledge offspring): I have promised to a. the child, puerum pollicitus sum (me) suscepturum, Ter.: Cic. 4. tollo, sustŭli, sublātum, 3 (in same sense as suscipio): to be unwilling to a. a female child, puellam nolle tollere, Ter.: they resolved to a. (the child), decreverunt tollere, Ter.: Cic.: v. to rear.
ACKNOWLEDGE Copy link • ACKNOWLEDGEagnoscere, cognoscere (to recognize anything, then to acknowledge it to be what it is): appellare aliquem (with accusative of a title: to acknowledge, e.g., a king, etc.). To acknowledge a man for one’s son, agnoscere aliquem tilium: not to acknowledge him as one’s son any longer, abdicare filium. To acknowledge a man as king, regem appellare aliquem (to declare him king), aliquiparere (to obey him): not to acknowledge a man for one’s king, detrectare alicujus imperium. Confess, fateor (mostly implying a previous question), confiteor, profiteor (confiteor, reluctantly, from being unable to conceal: profiteor, freely, openly), often joined with prae se ferre. To acknowledge openly, honestly, freely, aperte, ingenue, aperte et ingenue, libere confiteri; libere profiteri. To acknowledge a debt, confiteri aes alienum (xii tabb. ap. Gell., etc.), confiteri nomen: fateri se debere, not to acknowledge a debt, infitiari debitum. To acknowledge a sin, confiteri peccatum (Cic.) or se peccasse. To acknowledge the truth of Christianity, Christum sequi; *doctrinam Christianamprofiteri. To allow that one has received, implying that one owes a return: to acknowledge kindnesses, beneficia grate interpretari (Plin., Ep., 2, 13, 9). To acknowledge that they are conquered, unskillful, etc., confiteri se victos, imperitos, etc.