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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties |
| Division (I) Formation of Ideas |
| Section V. Results of Reasoning |
| 490. Knowledge. |
| NOUN: | KNOWLEDGE; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence [obs.]; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation (judgment) [See Judgment]; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, apperception, precognition; acroamatics. system -, body- of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophism, pansophy; acroama; theory, ætiology or etiology; circle of the sciences; pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia or cyclopædia, encyclopedia or encyclopædia, circle of knowledge; school (system of opinions) [See Belief]. tree of knowledge; republic of letters (language) [See Language]. ENLIGHTENMENT, light; glimpse, inkling, glimmer, glimmering, dawn; scent, suspicion; impression (idea) [See Idea]; discovery [See Discovery] LEARNING, erudition, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry; information, general information; store of knowledge &c.; education (teaching) [See Teaching]; culture, Kultur [Ger.], cultivation, menticulture, attainments; acquirements, mental acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge (skill) [See Skill]; liberal education, higher education; dilettantism; rudiments (beginning) [See Beginning]. deep -, profound -, solid -, accurate -, acroatic -, acroamatic -, vast -, extensive -, encyclopedical- -knowledge, - learning; omniscience, pantology. march of intellect; progress -, advance- of -science, - learning; school-master abroad. |
| VERB: | KNOW, ken [dial.], scan, wot [archaic]; wot of [archaic], be aware of &c. adj.; ween [archaic], weet [obs.], trow [archaic]; have, possess. conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy [slang, U. S.], be wise to [slang], appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight of, experience. KNOW FULL WELL; have -, possess- some knowledge of; be au courant [F.] &c. adj.; have in one’s head, have at one’s fingers’ ends; know by -heart, - rote; be master of; connaître le dessous des cartes [F.], know what’s what [colloq.] [See Skill]. DISCOVER [See Judgment]a; see one’s way. LEARN, come to one’s knowledge (information) [See Information]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | KNOWING &c. v.; cognitive; acromatic or acroamatical, apperceptive, appercipient. AWARE OF, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no stranger to; au fait [F.], au courant [F.]; in the secret; up to [colloq.], alive to; behind the -scenes, - curtain; let into; apprized of, informed of; undeceived. PROFICIENT IN, versed in, read in, forward in, strong in, at home in; conversant with, familiar with. EDUCATED, erudite, instructed, learned, lettered; well-conned, well-informed, well-versed, well-read, well-grounded, well-educated; enlightened, shrewd, savant [F.], blue [colloq.], bluestocking, high-brow [slang], bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-learned, ætiological or etiological, pansophic or pansophical; accomplished (skillful) [See Skill]; omniscient; self-taught, self-educated, autodidactic; self-made. KNOWN &c. v.; ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, - as household words, - to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, commonplace. KNOWABLE, cognizable, cognoscible. |
| ADVERB: | to -, to the best of- one’s knowledge; as every schoolboy knows. |
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