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1399 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1399/1/15 The justice sal tak knaulage of the officeris how thai gowerne thaim in thaire officis.

1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §41. m. 14 Eny commissioner assigned to enquere, serche and take knoweleche of the forseid .x.^th part.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4817 To Ioseph siþen þai soght..Coud þai of him na knaulag [Vesp. kything] take.

c1440 (?a1400) Sir Perceval (1930) l. 1052 (MED) Now hase Percyuell..Spoken with his emes twoo, Bot neuer one of thoo Took his knawlage.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. xx. 865 The Lacetanes, when they took knowledge of their armor and colours,..sallied out upon them.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxvii. ii. 305 When knowledge was taken with exceeding great sorrow, of this overthrow.

1611 Bible (King James) Acts iv. 13 They tooke knowledge of them, that they had been with Iesus. View more context for this quotation

a1754 E. Erskine Coll. Serm. (1755) 152 The World about them are ready to Take Knowledge of them, that they have been With Jesus.

a1783 H. Brooke Cymbeline v. ix, in Poems & Plays (1789) IV. 254 Soft, Adelaide—and note If he takes knowledge of me.

1839 D. H. Porter Jrnl. 30 July in A. T. Drinkwater Mem. (1848) xvi. 181 May I drink all my bitter draughts as the Savior did, that those around me may take knowledge of me that I have learned of him.

1849 J. F. Schroeder Mem. Mary Anna Boardman vi. 298 No one could share her hospitalities, or lodge a night under her roof, and not take knowledge of her, that she and her house served the Lord.

1872 L. Abbott Laicus xxiv. 261 I think it is perfectly safe to say that no one would have taken knowledge of him that he had been with Jesus.

1920 Homiletic Rev. June 470/2 Continually may men take knowledge of us that his spirit rules within our hearts.

1993 J. Phillips Exploring Ephesians iii. 153 It is evident in his walk and in his talk that something has happened. People take knowledge of him that he has been with Jesus.

1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi Delectable Demaundes i. f. 3 Howe should he take knowledge of [Fr. Comment prendroit il congnoissance de] that which he can not blame.

1576 G. Whetstone Castle of Delight 48 in Rocke of Regard He a hundred times kist both the seale, and superscription, before he aduentured to take knowledge of the hidden message therein.

1592 R. Greene Philomela sig. E2 Philippo tooke no knowledge of any thing but past it ouer smoothly, and vsed his former woonted familiaritie to hys wife.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iv. xxvi. 156 The taking knowledge of such, as pretended to bee freed,..was put off untill the war was ended.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 13 Take you as t'were some distant knowledge of him. View more context for this quotation

1611 Bible (King James) Ruth ii. 10 Why haue I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? View more context for this quotation

1623 J. Robinson Let. 19 Dec. in W. Bradford Plymouth Plantation (1856) 163 So are we glad to take knowledg of it in that fullnes we doe.

1778 W. A. Clarke Bed of Sweet Flowers 74 It is great condescension in the Almighty to take notice of the angelic host, but his condescending to take knowledge of fallen man, is the mystery that angels desire to look into.

1865 G. Bowen Daily Medit. 412 God will take knowledge of his necessities, and will see to it that he want no good thing.

1919 Times 23 Aug. 6/3 It may interest those who propose in due course to take action..to take knowledge of the following fact.

1998 H. Hey in H. Stokke et al. Human Rights Developing Countries Yearbk. 1997 ii. 202 Common crimes and offences committed by the military will be taken knowledge of and judged by ordinary courts.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1702 Þenne he wayned hym his wyt..Þat he com to knawlach & kenned hym seluen.

a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 7723 (MED) And than she kissed him fel sithe Til he cam til knowlech ageyn.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xiv. 49 Euyn at these wordes cam the prouost tyl his owne knowlege ageyne.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 262 ^v Whan this conclusion was comen to the knowleche of cassandra..she began to make..grete sorowe.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxxxi. f. lxvii He..ordeyned such meanes as byllys of supplicacion and other, that the causes & matiers of poore men myght come to his knowlege.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 116 I wil signifie the same vnto our said Lord, or to some other by whom it maie come to his knowledge.

1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa III. ii. ii. 171 As soone as this fatall newes came to Pacorus knowledge, he blasphem'd them for it.

1799 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 89 163 The most remarkable instance of this kind, that has come to my knowledge, was a Negress.

1882 Standard 9 Sept. 5/5 His Highness admits that a case of thumb-screwing has come to his knowledge.

1932 Phytopathology 22 494 Not until 1929..did further evidence concerning the modifiability of infection types come to my knowledge.

1992 D. Pannick Advocates iv. 114 If information comes to the knowledge of the prosecuting counsel which may assist the defence, he is under obligation to see that it is disclosed.

c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 400 (MED) None knew hym, ffor with fastyng & with wakyng he made hym selfe lene and oute of knowlege.

1537 Bible (Matthew's) 3 Kings xx. F [He] put asshes vpon his eyes, and put hym selfe out of knowledge.

1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xli. 366 This Olla-podrida was so cookt, that the distinction of each creature was sauc'd out of our knowledge.

1754 S. Foote Knights i. 11 Master Timothy is almost grown out of Knowledge, Sir Gregory.

1810 I. Pocock Hit or Miss! i. iv. 23 If the stripling should be grown out of my knowledge, he may get into the house before I'm aware of it.

1850 C. MacFarlane Turkey & Its Destiny I. ii. 64 After a few months she was improved out of all knowledge.

1865 C. H. Spence Mr. Hogarth's Will II. ii. 21 I doubt Emily is changed out of my knowledge. I have not seen her since she was four years and a half old.

1923 R. Cortissoz Amer. Artists ix. 111 They were almost afraid of nature, painting her with academic moderation, grooming her out of all knowledge.

1984 M. Bradley World Wreckers 105 On some of those worlds some of our people must have remained... Warped out of knowledge by what they had been through.

2004 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 14 Mar. 113 For some reason, he's improved out of all knowledge this season.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xii. 43 Incontynente that she felte her self to be thus sodaynly kyst of a man straunger out of her knowlege, she [etc.].

1549 J. Leland Laboryouse Journey sig. Dviii^v That olde name shoulde neuer growe out of knowledge.

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Pij ^v Who suffre Christes name for lacke of theyr daiely remembring, to grow out of the peoples knowlage.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xliii. 167 Albeit it be nowe growen out of knowledge, yet we haue thought it good to describe the same.

1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Pref. 6 The Hebrew it selfe..grew so out of knowledge among the people that they understood not our Saviours Eli, Eli, lammasabactani.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi Table sig. Ttt4/2 New-found world, how it first grew out of knowledge.

1747 W. Stith Hist. Virginia v. 292 They left them to be answered by the Governor and Company, as..containing things, either above their Determination, or out of their Knowledge.

1772 Oxf. Mag. Feb. 74/1 (So frequent once) the French disease, Is near grown out of knowledge.

1896 W. W. Hunter Life B. H. Hodgson ii. 19 Other distinguished officers..who were with him at Haileybury went to Madras and Bombay. But with few exceptions these soon fell out of his knowledge.

c1500 Three Kings' Sons (1895) 78 He hath wele to his knowlage delyuerd the sone of the grettist kynge that leuyth.

1534 tr. Erasmus Dyaloge Funus sig. Aiii^v Onely I haue herde of him for to my knowlege I neuer sawe his face.

1542 N. Udall in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 3 To my knowlege I have not eftsons offended.

a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. A5^v Of my knowledge in one cloyster keeps, Fiue hundred fatte Franciscan Fryers.

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. vi. §5 No man hath as yet, to my knowledge, impugned this custome of ours.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. vi. 64 Some there are that will not understand,..yet (to my knowledge) are Mates to good Ships.

1706 S. Centlivre Love at Venture iii. 25 Sir Will. He hates the sight of Women. Lady. That's false, to my knowledge—for he said the softest things to me, that Love cou'd form.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vii. 65 The girl has a great deal to say upon every subject, and to my knowledge is very well skilled in controversy.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 455/1 Why, man, you've worn that there jacket of yours, to my knowledge, a twelve-month at least.

1851 Med. Times 22 Nov. 546/2 She soon after left the hospital, and was, a week or two since, to Mr. Gay's knowledge, in perfect health.

1892 Philos. Rev. 1 634 There is not the faintest indication, to my knowledge, of the existence of a pleasure centre in the brain.

1920 G. T. Winston Builder of New South v. 68 He was offered to my knowledge an excellent position in Chicago, which he refused.

1935 D. Thomas Let. 9 Dec. (1987) 204 I have never, to my knowledge, read even a paragraph of surrealist literature.

1994 J. Davidson Stochastic Limit Theory p. xvi A number of the results in the text are, to the author's knowledge, new.

2008 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 27 Sept. b5 To my knowledge, there is only one gala that used to be televised.

1768 I. Bickerstaff Absent Man ii. xiii. 34 You'll permit me to say, that, to the best of my knowledge, I am no more married to your daughter than I am to the empress of Russia.

1799 H. Neuman tr. F.-A.-F. de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Trav. through United States N. Amer. I. 237 To the best of my knowledge, none of these free grants include a transfer of the right of property.

1842 Missionary Reg. Apr. 186/2 To the best of Mr. Caldwell's knowledge, not one Baptized Native has fallen away.

1941 ‘N. Blake’ Case of Abominable Snowman v. 47 Only Miss Cavendish and myself, to the best of my knowledge, are aware of your real profession.

2004 S. Taylor A to X Alternative Music 119/1 Their favourite band is Talk Talk, who, to the best of this writer's knowledge, never played The Grand Ole Opry.

1598 F. Bacon Ess. f. 27^v Knowledge it selfe is a power whereby he [sc. God] knoweth.]

1693 R. South Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's Bk. xi. 369 To say, That in Men Knowledge and Power are Commensurate; nay, That Knowledge is Power.

1806 B. Rush Let. 25 Nov. (1951) II. 935 Perhaps Lord Bacon laid the foundation in part of their madness by the well-known aphorism that ‘knowledge is power’.

1836 T. Jarrold Instinct & Reason 137 Knowledge is power, and power implies existence.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel I. ii. iii. 107 He..said half aloud,—‘Well, knowledge is power!’

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 89 The maxim that knowledge is power is true only where knowledge is the main thing wanted.

1943 Sci. & Mech. Spring 18/1 Zooming demands for technical books of many kinds..bear witness to the truth of that ancient copy-book maxim, ‘Knowledge is power’.

1953 Encounter Oct. 58/1 While the Communists agree that knowledge is power, they are persuaded that they are already in essential possession of both.

2006 New Scientist 25 Nov. 52/2 If knowledge is power, then today everyone has enormous power.

1746 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 4 Oct. in Lett. to Son (1774) I. 238 Mr. Pope says, very truly, ‘A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing’.

1785 Monthly Rev. Nov. 389 In this age of compilations, and abridgments, and beauties, and seraps, the doctrine cannot be too often repeated A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

1794 H. Repton Let. to Uvedale Price 15 As ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’, so the professors of every art, as well as that of medicine, will often find that the most difficult cases are those, where the patient has begun quacking himself.

1826 Examiner 1 Jan. 41/1 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing—and that they should meddle with nothing but physical science and the Bible!

1882 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 249/2 If ever it were true, it is pre-eminently true now, that ‘a little knowledge is a dangerous thing’.

1925 Rotarian Feb. 38 Wherever you find them they are busy proving that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing—but not making any effort to get more understanding.

1967 Jrnl. Business 40 354/1 For those who realize that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, there is an extensive Bibliography by subject matter at the end of the volume.

2009 Independent (Nexis) 22 July 30 When it comes to life or death, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

a1795 B. Beddome Serm. (1835) xviii. 122 The knowledge that the person had before was like that of the queen of Sheba in her own country—a knowledge of report and hearsay; but now it is a knowledge of acquaintance.

1884 A. Maclaren Year's Ministry (Second ser.) v. 66 You have known about Jesus Christ all your lives, and yet, in a real, deep sense you do not know Him at this moment. For the knowledge of which my text speaks is the knowledge by acquaintance with a person rather than the knowledge that a man may have of a book.

1911 B. Russell in Proc. Aristot. Soc. 11 127 We began by distinguishing two sorts of knowledge of objects, namely, knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. Of these it is only the former that brings the object itself before the mind.

1954 J. A. C. Brown Social Psychol. of Industry iii. 95 Two kinds of knowledge: ‘knowledge-about’, based on reflexion and abstract thinking, and ‘knowledge-of-acquaintance’, based on direct experience.

2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 June 64/1 Bertrand Russell had this right years ago in his distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.

1885 W. James in Mind 10 28 An interminable acquaintance, leading to no knowledge-about.

1945 E. Mayo Social Probl. Industr. Civilization (1949) i. i. 15 The student is required to relate his logical knowledge-about to his own direct acquaintance with the facts.

1999 R. K. C. Forman Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness vii. 117 James's distinction between knowledge-by-acquaintance and knowledge-about may be more a theoretical distinction between ideal types than a sharp chasm.

1911 B. Russell in Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 11 127 We began by distinguishing two sorts of knowledge of objects, namely, knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. Of these it is only the former that brings the object itself before the mind.

1938 Jrnl. Philos. 35 396 Carnap says that the distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description is no longer fundamental to his view.

1994 K. Swanwick Musical Knowl. i. 16 The difference between indirect propositional knowledge by description and that which is acquired and associated directly through musical experience.