Search the Dictionary

of Know.

he like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. She answers him as if she knew his mind. Shak. So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Milton.

rsecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise. There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph. Ex. i. 8. The doubts that in his heart arose. Milton.

; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon.

In time past; previously; already. You tell me, mother, what I knew before. Dryden.

To call; to name; to address. Whom . . . he knew and thus behight. Spenser.

The womb. [Obs.] Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. Jer. i. 5.

drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

Fig.: The region or community of social Bohemians. See Bohemian, n., 3. She knew every one who was any one in the land of Bohemia. Compton Reade.

A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon.

Unfailing; infallible. I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper. Mead.

being, the winged footstool and chariot of the Almighty, described in Ezekiel i. and x. I knew that they were the cherubim. Ezek. x. 20. He rode upon a cherub and did fly. Ps. xviii. 10.

Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment. [Obs.] I knew them well, and marked their rude comport. Dryden.

Self-restraint; self-command. He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden.

To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved. Milton.

Could; was able; knew or known; understood. [Obs.] Above all other one Daniel He loveth, for he couth well Divine, that none other couth; To him were all thing couth, As he had it of God's grace. Gower.

To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. I never knew any man cured of inattention. Swift.

Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous. Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him. John xvi. 19. Be not desirous of his dainties. Prov. xxiii. 3.

ence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless; as, desultory minds. Atterbury. He [Goldsmith] knew nothing accurately; his reading had been desultory. Macaulay.

what shall be written or said by another. Sylla could not skill of letters, and therefore knew not how to dictate. Bacon.