it we are compelled to borrow "cognitions" to express its import.
Sir W. Hamilton.
To use a word of Bacon's, now unfortunately obsolete, we must determine the relative value of knowledges.
H. Spencer. 3. That which is gained and preserved by knowing; instruction; acquaintance; enlightenment; learning; scholarship; erudition.
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
1 Cor. viii. 1.
Ignorance is the curse of God;
Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Shak. 4. That familiarity which is gained by actual experience; practical skill; as, a knowledge of life.
Shipmen that had knowledge of the sea.
1 Kings ix. 27. 5. Scope of information; cognizance; notice; as, it has not come to my knowledge.
Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of me?
Ruth ii. 10. 6. Sexual intercourse; — usually preceded by carnal; as, carnal knowledge.
Syn. — See Wisdom.
Knowledge
(Knowl"edge), v. t. To acknowledge. [Obs.] "Sinners which knowledge their sins." Tyndale.
