Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (18701938). Rogets International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (I) Formation of Ideas
Section V. Results of Reasoning
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.
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 ones head, have at ones fingers ends; know by -heart, - rote; be master of; connaître le dessous des cartes [F.], know whats what [colloq.] [See Skill].
DISCOVER [See Judgment]a; see ones way.
LEARN, come to ones knowledge (information) [See Information].
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.
to -, to the best of- ones knowledge; as every schoolboy knows.
Ones eyes being opened (disclosure) [See Disclosure].
Comprendre tout cest tout pardonner.
Empta dolore docet experientia.
Half our knowledge we must snatch not take.Pope
Jahre lehren mehr als Bücher.
Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.Tennyson
Knowledge is power.Bacon
Les affaires font les hommes; nec scire fas est omnia.Horace
The amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.Emerson
Was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht heiss.
Knowledge and timber shouldnt be much used till they are seasoned.Holmes
Only so much do I know as I have lived.Emerson
And I see all of it, Only, Im dying!Browning
Beyond the bounds our staring rounds, Across the pressing dark.Kipling