acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.], privity†, insight, familiarity;
comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation &c (judgment)
480; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition;
acroamatics†.
light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn;
scent, suspicion; impression &c (idea) 453; discovery &c 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 &c (system of opinions) 484.
tree of knowledge; republic of letters &c (language) 560.
erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters;
literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania†,
bibliolatry†; information, general information; store of knowledge &c;
education &c (teaching) 537; culture, menticulture†, attainments;
acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical
knowledge &c (skill) 698; liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments &c
(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 &c 492.
V. know, ken [Scot.], scan, wot†; wot aware†, be aware of &c 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 &c 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 &c 698.
see one's way; discover &c 480.1.
come to one's knowledge &c (information) 527.
Adj. knowing &c 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 &c (skillful) 698; omniscient; self-taught.
known &c v.; ascertained, well-known, recognized, received,
notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words,
familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace.
cognoscible†, cognizable.
Adv. to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.
Phr. one's eyes being opened &c (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 minds [Emerson]; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht
heiss [G.].