Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
484. tree of knowledge; republic of letters &c. (language) 560.
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erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature;
book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania[obs3],
bibliolatry[obs3]; information, general information; store of knowledge
&c.; education &c. (teaching) 537; culture, menticulture[obs3],
attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency;
practical knowledge &c. (skill) 698; liberal education; dilettantism;
rudiments &c (beginning) 66. deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid
knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge[obs3], acroamatic
knowledge[obs3], vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic
knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology[obs3]. march
of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of
learning; schoolmaster abroad. [person who knows much] scholar &c. 492.
V. know, ken, scan, wot[obs3]; wot aware[obs3], be aware &c. adj.- of;
ween[obs3], weet[obs3], trow[obs3], have, possess. conceive; apprehend,
comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy* [U.S.], appreciate;
fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of,
experience. know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some
knowledge of; be au courant &c. adj.; have in one's head, have at one'
fingers ends; know by heart, know by rote; be master of; connaitre le
dessous des cartes[Fr], know what's what &c. 698. see one's way;
discover &c. 480a. come to one's knowledge &c. (information) 527. Adj.
knowing &c. v.; cognitive; acroamatic[obs3]. aware of, cognizant of,
conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to, no
stranger to; au -fait, au courant; in the secret; up to, alive to;
behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of, informed
of; undeceived. proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with,
strong with, at home in; conversant with, familiar with. erudite,
instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well informed,
well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd, savant,
blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book- learned;
accomplished &c (skillful) 698; omniscient; self-taught. known &c. v.;
ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted;
proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every
schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace. cognoscible[obs3],
cognizable. Adv. to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.
Phr. one's eyes being opened &c. (disclosure) 529; ompredre tout c'est
tout pardonner[French: to know all is to pardon all]; empta dolore
docet experientia[Lat]; γνῶθι σεαυτόν[Grk]; "half our knowledge we must
snatch not take" [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher[German: years
teach more than books]; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"[Tennyson];
"knowledge is power" [Bacon]; les affaires font les hommes [Fr]; nec
scire fas est omnia [Lat][Horace]; "the amassed thought and experience
of innumerable minds" [Emerson]; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht
heiss[Ger].
#491. Ignorance.—N. ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa[Lat], crass
ignorance, ignorance crasse[Fr]; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance[obs3];
unconsciousness &c. adj.; darkness, blindness; incomprehension,
inexperience, simplicity. unknown quantities, x, y, z. sealed book,
terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark ages. [Imperfect
knowledge] smattering, sciolism[obs3], glimmering, dilettantism;
bewilderment &c. (uncertainty) 475; incapacity. [Affectation of
knowledge] pedantry; charlatanry, charlatism[obs3]; Philister[obs3],
Philistine. V. be ignorant &c. adj.; not know &c. 490; know not, know
not what, know nothing of; have no idea, have no notion, have no
conception; not have the remotest idea; not know chalk from cheese.
ignore, be blind to; keep in ignorance &c. (conceal) 528. see through a
glass darkly; have a film over the eyes, have a glimmering &c. n.;
wonder whether; not know what to make of &c. (unintelligibility) 519;
not pretend to take upon, not take upon one self to say. Adj. ignorant;
nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised,
unapprized[obs3], unwitting, unweeting|, unconscious; witless,
weetless[obs3]; a stranger to; unconversant[obs3]. uninformed,
uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored,
unschooled, misguided, unenlightened; Philistine; behind the age.
shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate;
unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish;
empty- headed, dizzy, wooly-headed; pedantic; in the dark; benighted,
belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked; misinformed; au bout de son
latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at sea &c. (uncertain) 475;
caught tripping. unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained,
uninvestigated[obs3], unexplored, unheard of, not perceived; concealed
&c. 528; novel. Adv. ignorantly &c. adj.; unawares; for anything, for
aught one knows; not that one knows. Int. God knows, Heaven knows, the
Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows. Phr. "ignorance never settles a
question" [Disraeli]; quantum animis erroris inest[Lat]! [Ovid]; "small
Latin and less Greek" [B. Jonson]; "that unlettered small-knowing soul"
[Love's Labor's Lost]; "there is no darkness but ignorance" [Twelfth
NIght].
#492. Scholar.—N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit,
schoolman[obs3], professor, graduate, wrangler; academician,
academist[obs3]; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman;
philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist,
sophister[obs3]; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist;
philologer[obs3]; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian;
litterateur[Fr], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti[It];
fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi[obs3], Sanskritish;
sinologist, sinologue[obs3]; Mezzofanti[obs3], admirable Crichton,
Mecaenas. bookworm, helluo librorum[Lat]; bibliophile,
bibliomaniac[obs3]; bluestocking, bas-bleu[Fr]; bigwig, learned Theban,
don; Artium Baccalaureus[Lat][obs3], Artium Magister[Lat]. learned
man, literary man; homo multarum literarum[Lat]; man of learning, man
of letters, man of education, man of genius. antiquarian, antiquary;
archaeologist. sage &c. (wise man) 500. pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue,
Dr. Pangloss; pantologist[obs3], criminologist. schoolboy &c. (learner)
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