Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual FacultiesDivision (I) Formation of Ideas
Section V. Results of Reasoning
490. Knowledge.
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.
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 one’s head, have at one’s fingers’ ends; know by -heart, – rote; be master of; connaître le dessous des cartes [F.], know what’s what [colloq.] [See Skill].
DISCOVER [See Judgment]a; see one’s way.
LEARN, come to one’s knowledge (information) [See Information].
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.
- One’s eyes being opened (disclosure) [See Disclosure].
- Comprendre tout c’est tout pardonner.
- Empta dolore docet experientia.
- [Greek].
- 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 shouldn’t 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, I’m dying!—Browning
- Beyond the bounds our staring rounds, Across the pressing dark.—Kipling