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By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge. Lowell.

To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience. Milton. Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold. Dryden.

Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue. Sapless age and weak unable limbs. Shak.

Not certain; not having certain knowledge; not assured in mind; distrustful. Chaucer. Man, without the protection of a superior Being, . . . is uncertain of everything that he hopes for. Tillotson.

Having no knowledge by experience; -- followed by of; as, a mule unconscious of the yoke. Pope. -- Un*con"scious-ly, adv. -- Un*con"scious*ness, n.

have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a…

The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. J. Hawes.

To have knowledge of; to hear. [Obs.] Spenser.

A promise or pledge; a guarantee. A. Trollope.

Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard.

A member of the Greek Church, who nevertheless acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope of Rome; one of the United Greeks. Also used adjectively.

Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence.

nt into operation. -- United Greeks (Eccl.), those members of the Greek Church who acknowledge the supremacy of the pope; -- called also uniats.

To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of. [Obs.]

Not acknowledged; not avowed. Gay.

Having no parent, or no acknowledged parent. [R.]

Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.] If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.

Having never visited foreign countries; not having gained knowledge or experience by travel; as, an untraveled Englishman. Addison.

Extending to the present time; having style, manners, knowledge, or other qualities that are abreast of the times. "A general up-to-date style of presentment." Nature.