pre-acknowledgedadj.

1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 67 A preacknowledged Infallibility strengthen'd by a long Possession.

1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 655 Had there not been some preacknowledg'd power to ground and countenance such a demand.

1882 J. D. Chambers tr. ‘Hermes Trismegistus’ Theol. & Philos. Wks. iii. ix. 151 Always like to Himself, equable and even, stable, well-ordered, being One after the pre-acknowledged God.

1889 J. T. Morse Benjamin Franklin 369 Franklin thought that the letter expressed too positively the resolve not to treat save upon this basis of pre-acknowledged independence.

1929 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 23 343 Russia has reversed the practice of more than a century and a half in order to calculate, in terms of pre-acknowledged conduct, the possibilities of actual security against attack.

1996 L. S. Marcus Unediting Renaissance 77 We need to notice..the stern and unyielding ritual process by which one text is cleansed of its pre-acknowledged imperfections.