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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.