[Obs.] " Know of your youth, examine well your blood." Shak.
Knowable
(Know"a*ble) a. That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained.
Thus mind and matter, as known or knowable, are only two different series of phenomena or qualities.
Sir W. Hamilton. Knowa bleness
(Know"a* ble*ness), n. The state or quality of being knowable. Locke.
Know-all
(Know"-all`) n. One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a
wiseacre; — usually ironical. [Colloq. or R.]
Knower
(Know"er) n. One who knows. Shak.
Knowing
(Know"ing), a.
1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.
The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal. [Colloq.]
Knowing
(Know"ing), n. Knowledge; hence, experience. " In my knowing." Shak.
This sore night
Hath trifled former knowings.
Shak. Knowingly
(Know"ing*ly), adv.
1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly
offend. Strype.
2. By experience. [Obs.] Shak.
Knowingness
(Know"ing*ness), n. The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
Knowleche
(Knowl"eche) n. & v. [Obs.] See Knowledge.
We consider and knowleche that we have offended.
Chaucer.
Knowleching
(Knowl"ech*ing) n. Knowledge. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Knowledge
(Knowl"edge) n. [OE. knowlage, knowlege, knowleche, knawleche. The last part is the
Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS.
lac, Goth. laiks dance. See Know, and cf. Lake, v. i., Lark a frolic.]
1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; cognition.
Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the
truth of affirmative or negative propositions.
Locke. 2. That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; — chiefly used in the plural.
There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges.
Bacon.
Knowledges is a term in frequent use by Bacon, and, though now obsolete, should be revived, as without
