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e art of composing or writing; authorship. I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft. S

A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.

To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord. Reid.

y of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception. Sir W. Hamilton. Matter hath no life nor perception, and…

Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly, adv. Pharmaceutical chemistry, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal su…

Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines.

That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.

Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.

A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.

To pledge or pawn. [Obs.]

The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill.

A pledge or pawn.

The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

ompassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Ps. ciii. 13.

To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

ith the attempt to popularize learning . . . but you will end in the plebification of knowledge. Coleridge.

imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge. Chaucer.

The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and men.

n thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge.

led also poke sleeve. To boy a pig a poke (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it. Camden.