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Roget category 490

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
4.5. Results of reasoning
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#490. Knowledge

noun

knowledgecognizance, cognition, cognoscenceacquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.], privity, insight, familiaritycomprehension, apprehensionrecognitionappreciation etc. (judgment) 480intuitionconscience, consciousnessperception, precognitionacroamatics.
light, enlightenment glimpse, inklingglimmer, glimmeringdawnscent, suspicionimpression etc. (idea) 453discovery etc. 480.1. system of knowledge, body of knowledgescience, philosophy, pansophyacroamatheory, aetiology, etiologycircle of the sciencespandect, doctrine, body of doctrinecyclopedia, encyclopediaschool etc. (system of opinions) 484.
tree of knowledgerepublic of letters etc. (language) 560.
erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, lettersliteraturebook madnessbook learning, bookishness bibliomania, bibliolatryinformation, general informationstore of knowledge &c. — education etc. (teaching) 537culture, menticulture, attainmentsacquirements, acquisitionsaccomplishmentsproficiencypractical knowledge etc. (skill) 698liberal educationdilettantismrudiments etc. (beginning) 66.
deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learningomniscience, pantology.
march of intellectprogress of science, advance of science, advance of learningschoolmaster abroad.
[person who knows much] scholar etc. 492.

verb

know, ken [Scot.], scan, wotwot aware, be aware of etc. adj. — ween, weet, trow, have, possess.
conceiveapprehend, comprehendtake, realize, understand, savvy [Slang], appreciatefathom, make outrecognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience.
know full wellhave some knowledge of, possess some knowledge ofbe au courant etc. adj. — have in one's head, have at one' fingers endsknow by heart, know by rotebe master ofconnaitre le dessous des cartes [Fr.], know what's what etc. 698.
see one's waydiscover etc. 480.1. come to one's knowledge etc. (information) 527.

adjective

knowing etc. v. — cognitiveacroamatic.
aware of, cognizant of, conscious ofacquainted with, made acquainted withprivy to, no stranger toau fait with, au courantin the secretup to, alive tobehind the scenes, behind the curtainlet intoapprized of, informed ofundeceived.
proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home inconversant with, familiar with.
erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educatedwell conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educatedenlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-learnedaccomplished etc. (skillful) 698omniscientself-taught.
known etc. v. — ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, notedproverbialfamiliar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboyhackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace.
cognoscible, cognizable.

adverb

to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.

phrase

one's eyes being opened etc. (disclosure) 529ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner [Fr.], to know all is to pardon allempta dolore docet experientia [Lat.]gnothi seauton [Gr.]half our knowledge we must snatch not take" [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher [G.], years teach more than books [G.]knowledge comes but wisdom lingers" [Tennyson]; knowledge is power" [Bacon]; les affaires font les hommes [Fr.]nec scire fas est omnia [Lat.] [Horace]; the amassed thought and experience of innumerable the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds" [Emerson]; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss [G.].

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