knowledge

Roget category 490

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

noun

knowledge — cognizance, cognition, cognoscence^† — acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.], privity^†, insight, familiarity — comprehension, apprehension — recognition — appreciation etc. (judgment) 480 — intuition — conscience, consciousness — perception, precognition — acroamatics^†.
light, enlightenment — glimpse, inkling — glimmer, glimmering — dawn — scent, suspicion — impression etc. (idea) 453 — discovery etc. 480.1. system of knowledge, body of knowledge — science, philosophy, pansophy^† — acroama^† — theory, aetiology^†, etiology — circle of the sciences — pandect^†, doctrine, body of doctrine — cyclopedia, encyclopedia — school etc. (system of opinions) 484.
tree of knowledge — republic of letters etc. (language) 560.
erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters — literature — book madness — book learning, bookishness — bibliomania^†, bibliolatry^† — information, general information — store of knowledge &c. — education etc. (teaching) 537 — culture, menticulture^†, attainments — acquirements, acquisitions — accomplishments — proficiency — practical knowledge etc. (skill) 698 — liberal education — dilettantism — rudiments etc. (beginning) 66.
deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge^†, acroamatic knowledge^†, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning — omniscience, pantology^†.
march of intellect — progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning — schoolmaster abroad.
[person who knows much] scholar etc. 492.

verb

know, ken [Scot.], scan, wot^† — wot aware^†, be aware of etc. adj. — ween^†, weet^†, trow^†, have, possess.
conceive — apprehend, comprehend — take, realize, understand, savvy [Slang], appreciate — fathom, make out — recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience.
know full well — have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of — be au courant etc. adj. — have in one's head, have at one' fingers ends — know by heart, know by rote — be master of — connaitre le dessous des cartes [Fr.], know what's what etc. 698.
see one's way — discover etc. 480.1. come to one's knowledge etc. (information) 527.

adjective

knowing etc. v. — cognitive — acroamatic^†.
aware of, cognizant of, conscious of — acquainted with, made acquainted with — privy to, no stranger to — au fait with, au courant — in the secret — up to, alive to — behind the scenes, behind the curtain — let into — apprized of, informed of — undeceived.
proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in — conversant with, familiar with.
erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated — well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated — enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-learned — accomplished etc. (skillful) 698 — omniscient — self-taught.
known etc. v. — ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted — proverbial — familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy — hackneyed, 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) 529 — ompredre tout c'est tout pardonner [Fr.], to know all is to pardon all — empta 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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