ppl. a. arch. [See BEKNOW.] Known, acquainted, familiar.
1429. Pol. Poems (1859), II. 147. A Marschalle full woorthyly beknowe.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. ii. 17. On bankis weil-biknaw.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 241. Let our figure enioy his best beknowen name.
a. 1618. Sylvester, Job Triumph., I. 486. Nor of his place is any more beknown.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., xii.> The seaman was beknown to me.
