knowledge
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- (obsolete) cnaulage, cnoulech, knauleche, knaulege, knaulach, knaulage, knawlache, knawlage, kneuelich, kneuleche, kneuliche, knoleche, knolege, knoleige, knolych, knouelache, knouelech, knouelich, knoulecche, knoulegge, knouliche, knowlache, knowlage, knowleche, knowledg, knowlege, knowlesche, knowliche, knowlych, knowlech
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English knowleche (“knowledge”), of uncertain formation. The first element is ultimately identical with know, but the second is obscure (neither Old Norse -leikr nor Old English -lāċ would have given -leche as found in the earliest Middle English citations). Compare Middle English knowlechen (“to acknowledge”), Old English cnāwelǣċing, cnāwlǣċ (“acknowledgment”), and know. Compare also freeledge.
- The noun originally provided a counterpart to the now-obsolete verb to knowledge (see below), but was very early adapted to be the noun equivalent of know.
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈnɒlɪdʒ/, SAMPA: /"nQlIdZ/
- (US) IPA: /ˈnɑlɪdʒ/, SAMPA: /"nAlIdZ/
- Rhymes: -ɒlɪdʒ
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Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation US: knowl‧edge UK: know‧ledge
[edit] Noun
knowledge (countable and uncountable; plural knowledges)
- (obsolete) Acknowledgement. [14th-16th c.]
- The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. [from 14th c.]
- His knowledge of Iceland was limited to what he'd seen on the Travel Channel.
- Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. [from 14th c.]
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- He had always intended to visit him, though to the last always assuring his wife that he should not go; and till the evening after the visit was paid she had no knowledge of it.
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- Intellectual understanding; the state of appreciating truth or information. [from 14th c.]
- Knowledge consists in recognizing the difference between good and bad decisions.
- Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. [from 14th c.]
- Does your friend have any knowledge of hieroglyphics, perchance?
- (archaic or law) Sexual intimacy or intercourse (now usually in phrase carnal knowledge). [from 15th c.]
- 1573, George Gascoigne, "The Adventures of Master F.J.", An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
- Every time that he had knowledge of her he would leave, either in the bed, or in her cushion-cloth, or by her looking-glass, or in some place where she must needs find it, a piece of money [...].
- 1573, George Gascoigne, "The Adventures of Master F.J.", An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction:
- (obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice. [15th-18th c.]
- 1580, Edward Hayes, "Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland", Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, ed. Charles W Eliot, Cosimo 2005, p. 280:
- Item, if any ship be in danger [...], every man to bear towards her, answering her with one light for a short time, and so to put it out again; thereby to give knowledge that they have seen her token.
- 1580, Edward Hayes, "Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland", Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern, ed. Charles W Eliot, Cosimo 2005, p. 280:
- The total of what is known; all information and products of learning. [from 16th c.]
- His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.
- (obsolete) Notice, awareness. [17th c.]
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized Version, Ruth II.10:
- Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger?
- 1611, The Bible, Authorized Version, Ruth II.10:
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- 1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, pages ix-x:
- There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist politics. These debates inform this attempt at worlding women—moving beyond white western power centres and their dominant knowledges [...]
[edit] Usage notes
- Adjectives often used with “knowledge”: extensive, deep, superficial, theoretical, practical, useful, working, encyclopedic, public, private, scientific, tacit, explicit, general, specialized, special, broad, declarative, procedural, innate, etc.
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terms derived from knowledge
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[edit] Translations
fact of knowing about something; understanding, familiarity with information
awareness, state of having been informed
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familiarity with particular skill, discipline
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total of what is known, product of learning
Sexual intercourse — see carnal knowledge
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[edit] Verb
knowledge (third-person singular simple present knowledges, present participle knowledging, simple past and past participle knowledged)
- (obsolete) To confess as true; to acknowledge. [13th-17th c.]
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 3:
- Then went oute to hym Jerusalem, and all Jury, and all the region rounde aboute Jordan, and were baptised of hym in Jordan, knoledging their synnes.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 3:
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- knowledge in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- knowledge in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Most common English words before 1923: living · view · although · #533: knowledge · hath · table · daughter
