adv. [f. ACKNOWLEDGED a. + -LY2.] By general acknowledgment; admittedly, confessedly.
1685. Gracians Courtiers Manual, 95. Such as are acknowledgedly capable of being good judges.
1827. Hare, Guesses at Truth (1847), Ser. I. 375. The historians facts are true; the poets are acknowledgedly fictitious.
1845. Vestig. Creat. (ed. 3), 150. Marsupialia, acknowledgedly low forms in their class.