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Know \Know\ (n[=o]), v. t. [imp. {Knew} (n[=u]); p. p. {Known}
(n[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Knowing}.] [OE. knowen, knawen,
AS. cn["a]wan; akin to OHG. chn["a]an (in comp.), Icel.
kn["a] to be able, Russ. znate to know, L. gnoscere, noscere,
Gr. gighw`skein, Skr. jn[=a]; fr. the root of E. can, v. i.,
ken. [root]45. See {Ken}, {Can} to be able, and cf.
{Acquaint}, {Cognition}, {Gnome}, {Ignore}, {Noble}, {Note}.]
1. To perceive or apprehend clearly and certainly; to
understand; to have full information of; as, to know one's
duty.

O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come! --Shak.

There is a certainty in the proposition, and we know
it. --Dryden.

Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong. --Longfellow.

2. To be convinced of the truth of; to be fully assured of;
as, to know things from information.

3. To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or
less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to
possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the
rules of an organization.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
--2 Cor. v.
21.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. --Milton.

4. To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of;
as, to know a person's face or figure.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. --Matt. vil.
16.

And their eyes were opened, and they knew him.
--Luke xxiv.
31.

To know
Faithful friend from flattering foe. --Shak.

At nearer view he thought he knew the dead.
--Flatman.

5. To have sexual intercourse with.

And Adam knew Eve his wife. --Gen. iv. 1.

Note: Know is often followed by an objective and an
infinitive (with or without to) or a participle, a
dependent sentence, etc.

And I knew that thou hearest me always. --John
xi. 42.

The monk he instantly knew to be the prior. --Sir
W. Scott.

In other hands I have known money do good.
--Dickens.

{To know how}, to understand the manner, way, or means; to
have requisite information, intelligence, or sagacity. How
is sometimes omitted. `` If we fear to die, or know not to
be patient.'' --Jer. Taylor.

Knew \Knew\,
imp. of {Know}.

Frank lied about how he met Gobie and he lied when he wrote that, as far as he knew, Gobie was obeying the law.
Wren said late Sunday he did not know if Rothmeier knew of the request.
"I looked at him and asked him his name," said Elmer Gnau, a retired tool and dye maker. "I knew if he said Kenneth, he would be my cousin.
"We knew as a country who we were, what we were, and there was a foreign policy that was basically born in a consensus and executed forthrightly."
Cilea knew all the tricks but his invention is weak. In the well-known arias he explores a genuine gift for rather flaccid melancholy reflection.
"Bush knew better than anyone else how frustrating such rumors are and wanted to put them to rest," said an administration official who spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Because their lives depended on the dogs, the men knew them all intimately, their strengths and foibles.
Mr. Vander Jagt said he knew of only two companies that would benefit from the minimum tax change.
"We knew when we announced our prices last May, we'd have to evaluate our situation in about a year," said Dave Illingworth, vice president and general manager of the Lexus division.
"Hardly anyone knew about this beforehand," says Harry Kamen, Metropolitan Life's general counsel.
He was troubled about flaws in the company's operating procedure, and felt the only way to clear the slate was to divulge everything he knew.
"Domestic fights, or armed robberies," he recalled in a recent interview. "Nothing like these." Both Hooks and Roper appeared to have been chosen at random and neither knew their attackers, police say.
None of the teen-agers who knew of the slaying faces prosecution.
Federal officials knew that workers at the Nevada Test Site were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation from nuclear bomb blasts in the 1950s and '60s, according to government records cited by The New York Times.
"We knew that was coming," pilots spokesman Rick Chapman said. He said the pilots union attorneys would study the motion.
The next thing I knew his car had hit the wall." Chafin said the race is normally run at about 10 mph and that Hagewood was going faster than that.
"I owe him many things," said the Swedish botanist Peter Kahn about fellow botanist John Bartram, "for he possessed the great quality of communicating everything he knew."
"On the basis of the evidence, the Bulgarian-Soviet link (to Agca) cannot be proved," an unnamed intelligence analyst told the New York Times in December 1982, when nobody knew what the evidence was.
"Super Tuesday was the hard night because that was when you really knew you were on the ropes," Gephardt said.
In a July release, Martin Marietta officials said they knew of Chappell's involvment when the company purchased the club.
He said his wife Kathy was the only one who knew about his illiteracy.
"I don't agree with him," Dukakis said when told of Jackson's objections. "We all knew what the rules were.
In Israel, an army spokesman said he knew nothing about the attack.
They said the Courter campaign knew they objected and say their wishes should have been respected regardless of the willingness of their daughter-in-law to appear in the ad.
If they knew, they might have been charged with harboring a fugitive," he said.
The Justice Department is investigating an American Cyanamid employee, believed to have altered the research results, and the FDA is exploring if Cyanamid's management knew of any data falsification.
Charles Riter of Riter Research, the Annapolis, Md. company that conducted the survey, said there was overlapping and that a net of 32 percent of those questioned knew a teen-ager in one of the two categories.
The judge also will consider allowing the plaintiff in the Newark, N.J., case to see another 1,489 memos and transcripts that allegedly show tobacco companies knew smoking was dangerous but kept the information from the public.
Suddenly he heard the flight surgeon exclaim, "What was that?" "I knew instantly this was terribly wrong.
Something was always missing from my life, and I never knew what it was.

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