[f. ACKNOWLEDGE v. + -ER.] One who acknowledges or owns the claims of.
1535–75. Abp. Parker, Corr., 112. Ye his followers & acknowledgers partake of this sin also.
a. 1662. Herrick, Poems (1844), 31. And ever live a true acknowledger.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. 186. Aristotle [was] an acknowledger of many gods.
