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c1440 Prose Life Alexander (Thornton) (1913) 54 (MED) Þay went & helde þam in hidils ay till þay myȝte gete knaweynge of Alexander will.

1577 R. Willes in R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies Epist. sig. (.).iiii You shal neyther be able to get intelligences of the situation and strength of any citie, nor of the limites and boundes of any countrey.

1591 W. Raleigh Let. 16 Oct. (1999) 57 This is the very trewth I asure your lordship before the livinge God as nire as wee can sett down or gett knowledge of.

c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 45 The governour gettand witt therof, past with his cumpany and saigit the samyn.

1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 128 His wife had already gotten some small knowledge of this matter.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xlii. 461 The duke of Parma, who had gotten intelligence of their approach.

1816 Catholicon 3 63/2 Dr. Tillotson and Dr. Stillingfleet had got knowledge of his lodging, and resolv'd to have him taken up (and persecuted as a priest) the very next morning.

1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. ii. 26 When I first looked into his face I perceived that he had got intelligence of the catastrophe.

1894 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 633/2 I thought if you had been sending for money, and thae burglars had got wit of it—.

1916 J. O. Evjen Scand. Immigrants N.Y. ii. 156 The city authorities got knowledge of the matter.

1967 N.Y. Times 11 June (Mag.) If we got intelligence of V.C. at Buon Ya Soup, about 30 clicks..away, it would take us a day and a half to get there.

2010 Classical Q. 60 251 The Phoenicians used the Little Bear for navigation before the Greeks got knowledge of it from Thales.