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erprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor. The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 1 Sam. ii. 3.

To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv.

To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

antage ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to…

Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

To recognize; to acknowledge. [Archaic] I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. Shak.

One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

Earlier form of Acknow. [Obs.] To be aknow, to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.]

tented with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.

To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray.

The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

re or organization. Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy. Dryden.

One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith.

Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.

In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event. Anyhow, it must be acknowledged to be not a simple selforiginated error. J. H. Newman. Anyhow, the languages of the two nations were closely allied. E. A. Freeman.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

The act of arranging knowledge into a system.

Relating to the systemizing of knowledge.