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Known

adjective

1.

Apprehended with certainty. "The limits of the known world" , "A musician known throughout the world" , "A known criminal"

Know

verb

(past knew; past part. known; pres. part. knowing)

1.

Be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about. Synonyms: cognise, cognize. "I want to know who is winning the game!" , "I know it's time"

2.

Know how to do or perform something. "Does your husband know how to cook?"

3.

Be aware of the truth of something; have a belief or faith in something; regard as true beyond any doubt. "Galileo knew that the earth moves around the sun"

4.

Be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object. "Do you know my sister?" , "We know this movie" , "I know him under a different name" , "This flower is known as a Peruvian Lily"

5.

Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations. Synonyms: experience, live. "Have you ever known hunger?" , "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict" , "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare" , "I lived through two divorces"

6.

Accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority. Synonyms: acknowledge, recognise, recognize. "We do not recognize your gods"

7.

Have fixed in the mind. "This student knows her irregular verbs" , "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?"

8.

Have sexual intercourse with. Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with. "Adam knew Eve" , "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

9.

Know the nature or character of.

10.

Be able to distinguish, recognize as being different.

11.

Perceive as familiar.

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"Known" Quotes from Famous Books

... evenings, when the drawbridge was up, the guard set, the woodfires blazing indoors, and the candles lit. He had brought with him from Newport fourteen personal attendants in all, including his two gentlemen of the bedchamber, Mr. James Harrington (afterwards known as the author of Oceana) and Mr. Thomas Herbert. Both these gentlemen, though their principles and connexions were originally Parliamentarian, had, in the course of their long attendance on the royal captive, ...

— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson

... disposal; do not be so profuse in your praise, that looks like flattery'. The correspondence had hardly begun when Erasmus found a splendid opportunity to render this illustrious personage a service and, at the same time, in the shadow of his name, make himself known to the reading public. The matter is also of importance because it affords us an opportunity, for the first time, to notice the connection that is always found between Erasmus's career as a man of letters and a scholar and the technical ...

— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga

... after the future poet was admitted as a sizar, in a letter written in 1580, asks: 'And wil you needes have my testimoniall of youre old Controllers new behaviour?' and then proceeds to heap abusive words on some person not mentioned by name but evidently only too well known to both the sender and the receiver of the epistle. Having compiled a list of scurrilities worthy of Falstaff, and attacked another matter which was an abomination to him, Harvey vents his wrath in sundry Latin charges, one of which runs: 'C{ae}tera fer{e}, ut olim: Bellum inter ...

— A Biography of Edmund Spenser • John W. Hales

... that, as a History of England cannot deal with the present Parliament, so also the unfinished researches and untested hypotheses of many well-known astronomers of to-day cannot be included among the records of the History of Astronomy. The writer regrets the necessity that thus arises of leaving without mention the names of many who are now making history ...

— History of Astronomy • George Forbes

... exists in England a man of any rank more anxiously desirous to discharge his duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call him. His thought and exertions are constantly directed to that object; and the more he is known the more is he ...

— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

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