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there is a certainty in the proposition, and weknow it. Dryden.
When a man makes use of the name of anysimple idea, which he perceives is not understood,he is obliged by the laws of ingenuity, and theend of speech, to make known what idea he makesit stand for. Locke,
2. To be informed of; to be taught.
Ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to youwhy his hand is not removed from you.
1 Sam. vi. 3.
Led on with a desire to fcnowWhat nearer might concern him. Milton.
One would have thought you bad known betterthings than to expect a kindness from a commonenemy. L’Estrange.
3. To distinguish.
Numeration is but the adding of one unit more,and giving to the whole a new name, whereby toknow it from those before and after, and distin-guish it from every smaller or greater multitude ofunits. Locke.
4. To recognise.
What art thou, thus to rail on me, that is nei-ther known of thee, nor knows thee ? Shakesp.
They told what things were done in the way,and how he was known of them in breaking ofbread. Luke , xxiv. 35.
At nearer view he thought he knew the dead,And call’d the wretched man to mind. Flatman.
Tell rae how I may know him. Milton.
5. To be no stranger to ; to be familiarwith.
What are you ?
—A most poor man, made tame to fortune’s blows,Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,
Am pregnant to good pity. Shakesp. King Lear.
6. To converse with another sex.
And Adam knew Eve his wife. Genesis.
To Know. v. n.
1. To have clear and certain perception;not to be doubtful.
I know of a surety that the Lord hath sent hisangel, and delivered me out of the hand of Herod .
Acts.
2. Not to be ignorant.
When they know within themselves they speakof that they do not well know , they would never-theless seem to others to know of that which theymay not well speak. Bacon .
Not to know of things remote, but knowThat which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom. Mi/ton.
In the other world there is no considerationthat will sting our consciences more cruelly thanthis, that we aid wickedly, when we knew to havedone better; and chose to make ourselves misera-ble, when we understood the way to have beenhappy. Tillotson.
Tnev might understand those excellencies whichthey blindly valued, so as not to be farther im-;posed upon by bad pieces, and to know when na-ture was well imitated by the most able masters.
Dt'yd.
3. To be informed.
The prince and Mr. Poins will put on our jer-kins and aprons, and Sir John must not know of it.
Shakesp.
There is but one mineral body, that we know ofheavier than common quicksilver. Boyle.
4*. To know for. To have knowledge of.A colloquial expression.
He said the water itself was a good healthywater ; but for the party that own’dit, he mighthave more diseases than he knew for. Shak. Hen.LV.
5. To know of. In Shakespeare , is totake cognisance of; to examine.
Fair Hermia, question your desires ;
Know o/'your youth, examine well your blood,Whether, if you yield not to your father’s choice
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You can endure the livery of a nun,
For ay to be in a shady cloister mew'd. Shakesp.
Kno'wable. adj. [from know.] Cog-’noscible ; possible to be discovered oriunderstood. |
These are resolved into a confessed ignorance,and I shall not pursue them to their old asylum ;and yet it may be, there is more knowable in these,than in less acknowledged mysteries. Glanville.
’Tis plain, that under the faw of works is com-prehended also the law of nature, knowible byreason, as well as the law given by Moses. Lock 9 .
These two arguments are the voices of nature,the unanimous suffrages of all real beings and sub-stances created, that are naturally knowable with-out revelation. Bentley.
Knower. n. s. [from know.] One whohas skill or knowledge.
If we look ofl a vegetable, and can only say ’tiscold and dry, we are pitiful knowers. Glanville.
I know the respect and reverence which in thisaddress I ought to appear in before you, who area general knower of mankind and poetry. Southerne.
Kno'wing. adj, [from know.]
1. Skilful; well instructed; remote fromignorance.
You have heard, and with a knowing ear,
That he, which hath your noble father slain,Pursu’d my life. Shakesp. Hamlet .
The knowingest of these have of late reformedtheir hypothesis. Boyle.
What makes the clergy glorious is to be knowingin their profession, unspotted in their lives, activeand laborious in their charges. South.
The necessity of preparing for the offices of re-ligion was a lesson which the mere light and dic-tates of common reason, without the nelp of reve-lation, taught all the knowing and intelligent partof the world. South’s Sermons.
Bellino, one of the first who was of any consi-deration at Venice, painted very drily, accordingto the maimer of his time : he was very knowingboth in architecture and perspective. Dryden.
All animals of the same kind, which form asociety, are more knowing than others. Addison.
2. Conscious ; intelligent.
Could any but a knowing prudent causeBegin such motions and assign such laws rIf The Great Mind had form'd a dilferent frame,Might not your wanton wit the system blame ?
Blackmore.
Kno'wing. n. s. [from know.] Know-ledge.
Let him be so entertained as suits gentlemen ofyour knowing to a stranger of his quality. Shakesp.
Kno'wingly .adv. [from knowing.] Withskill; with knowledge.
He knowingly and wittingly brought evil intothe world. More.
They who were rather fond of it than knowinglyadmired it, nright defend their inclination oytheir reason. Dryden.
To the private duties of the closet he repaired,as often as he entered upon any business of con-sequence : 1 speak knowingly. Atterbury.
Kno'wledge. n. s. [from know.]
1. Certain perception ; indubitable appre-hension.
Knowledge, which is the highest degree of thespeculative faculties, consists in the perception ofthe truth of affirmative or negative propositions.
Locke.
Do but say to me what I should do,
That in your knowledge may by me be done,
And I am prest unto it. Shakesp. M&ch. oj Venice.
2. Learning ; illumination of the mind.
Ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heav’n.
Shakesp.
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3. Skill in any thing.
Shipmen that have knowledge of the sea. Kings.
4. Acquaintance with any fact or person.
The dog straight fawned upon his master for
old knowledge. Sidney.
5. Cognisance; notice.
Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thoushouldst take knowledge of me, seeing I am astranger? Ruth.
A state’s anger should not takeKiwwledge either of fools or women. BenJonson.
6. Information ; power of knowing.
I pulled off my head piece, and humbly entreatedher pardon, or knowledge why she was cruel. £idn.
To Kno'wledge. v. a. [not in use.] Toacknowledge ; to avow.
The prophet Hosea tells us that God saith of theJews , they have reigned, but not by me $ whichproveth plainly, that there are governments whichGod doth not avow: for though they be or-dained by his secret providence, yet they are notknowledged by his revealed will. Bacons Holy War.
To Knubble. v. a. [knipler , Dan.] Tobeat. Skinner.
KNU'CKLE. n.s. [cnucle, Sax. knockle,Dat.]
1. The joints of the fingers protuberantwhen the fingers close.
Thus often at the Temple-stairs we’ve seenTwo tritons, of a rough athletick mien,
Sourly dispute some quarrel of the flood.
With knuckles bruis’d, and face besmear’d in blood.
Garth.
2. The knee joint of a calf.
Ji jlv, which they used for a restorative. Is chieflymade of knuckles of veal. Bacon’s Natural Hist.
3. The articulation or joint of a plant.
Divers herbs have joints or knuckles , as it were
stops in their germination ; as gillyflowers, pinks,and corn. Bacon .
To Knu'ckle. v. n. [from the noun.] Tosubmit: I suppose from an odd customof striking the under side of the tablewith the knuckles, in confession of anargumental defeat.
Knu'ckled. adj. [from knuckle.] Jointed.
The reed or cane is a watry plant, and growethnot but in the water: it hatn these properties,that it is hollow, and it is knuckled both stalk androot; that, being dry, it is more hard and fragilethan other wood ; that it putteth forth no boughs*tho’ many stalks out of one root. Bacon ’s Nat. Htit.
Knuff. n.s. [perhaps corrupted fromknave, or the same with, chuff.] A lout.An old word preserved in a rhyme ofprediction.
The country knujfs, Hob, Dick, and Hick,
With clubs and clouted shoon,
Shall fill up Dussendalc
With slaughter’d bodies soon. Hayward .
Knur. 1 n. s. [ knor , Germ.] A knot;
Knurle. J a hard substance.
The stony nodules found lodged in the strata,are called by the workmen Jcnurs and knots.
Woodw.
Koned, for knew. Spenser.
Ko'ran. n. s. The alcoran, the bible ofthe Mahometans.
To Kyd. v.n. [corrupted probably fromcuS, Sax.] To know.
l!ut ah, unjust and worthless Colin Clout,
That kydst the hidden kinds of many a weed;
Yetkydst not one to cure thy sore heart root,Whose rankling wound as yet doth rifely bleed.
Spatter.