KENDAL. the ablaut-grade *ki>ik- is the base of CHINK z>.l and KINK intr. To z/.i] laugh loudly. a . 1225 Katk. 2042 per me mahte i<strong>here</strong>n be cnstene kenchen and berien fro healent c ,.30 //A VW,i Hu 17 tc deoueles hoppen & kenchinde beaten hondes to-gederes. Kench, variant of KINCH, noose. Kend, variant of KENT///, a. Kendal (ke-ndal). Kendal in Westmor- [f. land, the place of manufacture. Rrmer's Ftrdera II. 825 has a letter of protection, of the year ii to John Kempe of Flanders, who established cloth- weaving at Kendal. See Westmorland Note-bk. 1. 241-250.] f 1. A species of green woollen cloth. Oat. 1389 Act 13 Rick. II, c. 10 f i Certeines draps en diverses Countees Dengleterre appelez Cogware & Kendalecloth. 1410 Rolls of Parlt. III. 643 Draps appelles Kendales, Kerseis, Bakkes, [etc.]. rlf+Mann. % Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 377 Payd for iiij. jerdys and iij. quarterys kendalle for a gowne and a sadyll clothe, the yerde ix. d. 1483 Act i Rich. Ill, c. 8 18 Any Cloths called Kendals. 1497 Ld. Treas. Ace., Scat, I. 340 For vij elne of grene Kentdalee. ,joj md. III. 37 For x elne Kentdale to be ane cote to the King, ciyjo Pride tf Lowl. (1841) 33 Of Kendall very course his coate was made, a 1687 COTTON Poet. Wks. (1705) 82 His Breeches.. Were Kendal, and his Doublet Fustian. fb. attrib. Obs. c 1425 LYDG. Assembly of Gods 356 On hys hede he had a thredebare kendall hood, c 1550 Disc. Common Weal Eng. (1893) 82 A servinge man was content to goe in a Kendall cote in somer. 1611 Cotyafs Crudities Panegyr. Verses, The Mayor of Hartlepoole . . Put on 's considering cap and Kendall gowne. 2. Kendal green, arch, or Hist. a. = sense I. Now only 1514 BARCLAY Cyt. % Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. vii, His costly clothing was threadebare kendall grene. 1532 MORE Confut. Tindale Wks. 618/2 Tyl he do of his gray garmentes and clothe him selfe cumly in gaye kendall greene. 1596 SHAKS. i Hen. IV, ir. iv. 246 Three mis-begotten Knaues, in Kendall Greene. 1812 SCOTT Rokeby v. xv, A seemly gown of Kendal green. b. The green colour of Kendal cloth ; also, the plant Dyer's Greenweed, with which it was dyed. l8/*: hence in Blount,Phiilips,etc.) b. Comb. fKennet-coloura., grey-coloured. 1530 PALSGR. 235/2 Kenet coloure, cendre.
KENNING-. [Kennet, Naut. ; error for KEVEC, (q. v.), in Kersey s Phillips 1706, whence in Bailey, Chambers Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Century Diet., etc.] Ke-nning, sb. north.dial. [Derivation obscure 1 A dry measure: = two pecks, or half a bushel; a vessel containing this quantity J32^fi R "S D . "'""''\ H 496 In xlvij qr. ij ken. which at the first kenning, they tooke to be french Shippc 1586 R. LANE in Capt. Smith Virginia \. 5 The passag from thence was thought a broad sound within the maine being without kenning of land. 1598 TOFTE Alba. (1880) 34 He is in kenning of his wished Home. 1599 HAKLUVT Voy. II. i. 102 We had also kenning of another Hand called Lissa. 1630 LENNARD tr. Charron's Wisd. in. xxiv. (1670) 491 Again, at a kenning we cannot see of the Earth above ten or twelve leagues, a 1697 STRATHSPEY in Aubrey's Misc. (1721) 203 The Lady Gareloch was going somew<strong>here</strong> from her House within kenning to the Road which Clunie was coming. t 4. Range of sight: = KEN s&J 2. Obs. 1530 PALSGR. 431, I am within syght, as a shyppe is that cometh within the kennyng. 1599 T. M(OITET) Silkivermes 15 Not dreaming that her loue in kenning were. 1601 HOLLAND Pliny I. 61 Without your kenning "lyeth Sardinia fast vpon the Africke sea, to. The distance that bounds the range of ordinary vision, esp. at sea; hence, a marine measure of about 20 or 21 miles. Cf. KEN sb.^ i. 41490 BOTONER Itin. (Nasmith 1778) no Per distanciam de le narrow see . . v kennyngys, et quilibet kennyng continc't ..21 miliaria. (1500 Melusine 104 He sawe the ship th -y West. . Cornew'aulle. _ 16514 MOTTEUX Rabelais iv. xxii. 11737)94, I see Land . . 'tis within a Kenning. 5. Mental cognition ; knowledge, cognizance ; recognition. Now Sc. and north, dial, f Fleshly kenning, carnal knowledge. c 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 64 py seluyn hadcle takyn deed, (>urgh be hete of fleschly kennynge with <strong>here</strong>. c 1440 Promp. Paru. 271/2 Kennynge, or . . knowynge, , t ye're past kt b. A recognizable portion; just enough to be perceived ; a little. Sc. and north, dial. 1786 BURNS Unco Guid\\\, Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. 1805 J. Nicoi. Poems I. 187 (Jam.) Gif o' this warl, a kennin mair, Some get than me, I've got content. 1876 Whithy Gloss, s. v., That string's just a kenning thicker than the other. 1893 STEVENSON Catriona 103 His father was.. a kenning on the wrong side of the law. 6. One of the periphrastic expressions used instead of the simple name of a thing, characteristic of Old Teutonic, and esp. Old Norse, poetry. Examples are oar-steed ship, storm of swords = battle. The term is adopted from the mediaeval Icelandic treatises on poetics, and is derived from the idiomatic use of henna ' vi?t or til, to name after ', 1883 VICFUSSON & POWELL Corfus Poet. Bar. II. 448 The extreme development of the ' ' kenning in Northern Poetry. 1889 COOK Judith Introd. 59 A characteristic ornament of Old English, as well as of early Teutonic poetry in general, are the kennings. 1896 Scott. Rev. Oct. 342 note, The ken. ' ' nings for man in Grondal's Clavis Poetica extend to 33 closely printed columns. 7. Comb., as f kenning-glass, a spy-glass, small f kenning-place, a place prominently telescope ; in sight. 1603 Reg. Stationers' Co. 15 June (Arb.) III. 238 A <strong>Book</strong>e Called A Kennyng glass for a Christian Kinge. 1610 HOLLAND Camden's Brit. i. 606 It standeth forth as a Kenningplace to the view of eyes. t Kenning, vbl. so.'2 Obs. rare. Also 7 kinning. [app. f. KEN w. 2 + -ING!; cf. OE. canning birth.] The cicatricula or tread of an egg. 1585 HIGCINS tr. Junius' Nomenclator, Ovi umbilicus, the streine or kenning of the egge. 1601 HOLLAND Pliny I. 298 T<strong>here</strong> is found in the top or sharper end of an egge within the shell, a certaine round knot resembling a drop or a nauil, rising aboue the rest, which they call a Kinning. Kennit, obs. f. KENNED, KJENT ///. a. VOL. V. 673 Keno, kino (kfno). U. S. [Origin unknown.! A game of chance based on the drawing of numbers and covering of corresponding numbers on 1882-3 SCHAFF Eticycl. Relig. Knovil. I. 461 The Kenotic view of Giessen is more in accordance with the facts of Christ's life. Ibid., The Kenotic controversy was renewed recently. 1895 CIi. Q. Rc->. 487 [A] leaning towards the Kenotic theories of the Incarnation. Hence Keno'ticism, the doctrine of, or belief in, the kenosis of Christ ; Keno'ticist, one who believes in, or maintains, the kenosis. 1882-3 SCHAFF Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 458 Baur, Dorner, Rothe,nnd the modern Kenoticists. 1891 Ch. Q. Rev.Oct. 9 The Kenoticist does not deny them, but practically he gets rid of them, . by his theory of kenosis. 1899 W. BRIGHTLaw ofFaith 337 Kenoticism may indeed be described as a solvent of faith. Kenotism(ke-n0tiz'm). Theol. - KENOTICISM. So Ke'notist = KENOTICIST. 1896 E. H. GIFFORD in Expositor Sept. 166 Speculation concerning the fulness of the Godhead in the Incarnate Christ, and the opposite doctrine of Kenotism. 1899 Ck. Times 3 Feb. 117 The Modern Theories of the Kenotibts with reference to Our Lord's Knowledge. see KINGRIK, KEENSHIP. Kenrik, Kenschipe : Kenspeck (ke-nspek), a. dial. Also 8 -spaok, 9 -spec, -spao. [Origin obscure : the form agrees with Norw. kjennespak, Sw. kiinspak, quick at recognizing persons or things (cf. ON. kennispeki faculty of recognition) ; but the change from the active to a passive sense makes difficulties. Some have suggested confusion with conspicuous, but evidence is wanting. Kensp'ecked is given by Skinner (1671) and Ray (1674), and in Craven and other Northern glossaries.] = next. 1590 SIR T. COCKAINE Hunting Dj, The most Buckes h.iue some kenspeck marke to knowe them by vpon their heads. 1715 THORESBY Leeds in Craven Dial., A convention at some noted oak, or to use a local word, kenspack ake. 1841 DE QUINCEY^ Homer Wks. 1857 VI. 375 The Homeric metre . . is certainly kenspeck, to use a good old English word that is, recognisable. 1855 ROBINSON Whitby ' Gloss, s. v., As kenspac as a cock on a church broach '. Kenspeckle (ke-nspe k'l), a. Sc. and north. dial. Also -speckled; cf. prec. [See prec. ; the ending may be -LE r, as in brittle, etc.] Easily recognizable ; conspicuous. 1714 MRS. CENTLIVRE Wonderm, Eng. Man. . .What kind of a Woman is it you enquire after? Gib. Geud troth, she's ne Kenspekle, she's aw in a Clowd. 1795 BURNS Let. to G. Thomson May, My phiz is sae kenspeckle that the very joiner's apprentice, .knew it at once. 1820 SCOTT Monast. xxxiv, It is a kenspeckle hoof-mark, for the shoe was made by old Eckie of Canonbie. 1862 DARWIN Let. 25 Jan. in Life II. (188^) 385 Your notion of the Aristocrat being kenspeckle, .is new to me. t Ke'nsy. Sc. Obs. rare. [Of unknown etym. The erron. form kenyie (see Jam.) is due to a mis- interpretation of Ramsay's spelling kenzie, in his edition of Christs Krrk.] A rough or rude fellow. KENTISH. 'i??-" D B* Poems Ix. 16 Fowll jow iourdane heditjevelhs, Cowkin kenseis and culroun kewellis. Chris-is K.rke Gr vii. (Bann. MS.), The kensy cleikit loVhe caVel" n *enny 'i> f nS of wh oute kenning [v.r. techyng] of eni KDiruue* man. c ijjo j"7. .,_ iir /T-i_ii.v *... K . *JO** * v * t2. a. Sign, token, b. Appearance. Obs. a 1300 Cursor M. 18332 (Cott.) . . pou has be kenenini? ' h 15 en cards, m a manner similar to lotto. 1879 Scribner's Mag. JCIX. 386/1 To play cards and keno for small stakes. 1884 Pall Mall G. 26 /une rode $ Raised in erth f*, of urranscum. Hid. 24086 (Cott.) Vnethes i his kenning kneu. to. Visual cognition; sight or view: ' =KENji.l^. Phrases in, within, beyond, out of kenning. Obs'. , t/2 He a door and us<strong>here</strong>d me opened in, and the first exclamation I was heard Kino and a grunt of satisfaction. . . Some of the members were lying about asleep in the gaming room, . . beenhit hard having by the latest American importation kino. t Ke-nodoxy. Obs. rare~. [ad. Gr. KevoSofia, f. Kfv6So(-os vain-glorious, f. wei/o-s empty + Sofa ' ' glory.] The love, study, or desire of vain-glory (Blount Glossogr. 1656; hence in Phillips i6s8, and Bailey 1730). Kenogenesis (knwdse-nesis). Biol. [irreg. for cxno- or kainogenesis, f. Gr. KCUV&S new + yWis genesis.] Haeckel's term for the form of ontogenesis in which the true <strong>here</strong>ditary development of a germ is modified by features derived from its environment (opposed to palingenesis). Hence Kenogeue'tic a. 1879 tr. HaeckeVs Evol. Man I. i. 10 The term Kenogenetic process (or vitiation of the history of the germ) is applied to all such processes of the germ-history as are not to be explained by <strong>here</strong>dity from primaeval parent.forms. I/nd. ii 1 his distinction between Palingenesis or inherited evolution, and Kenogenesis or vitiated evolution, has not yet been sufficiently appreciated by naturalists. II Keuosis (kftiou-sis). Theol. [a. Gr. ittiiuaK an emptying, f. n(i>6(tv to empty, with ref. to Phil. ii. 7 iavTov fKfvaaf 'emptied himself'.] The selfrenunciation of the divine nature, at least in part, by Christ in the incarnation. [1844 W. H. MILL Semi. Tempt. Christ v. 113 Here especially we behold that fVu
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