ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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 † , acroamatic knowledge † , vast knowledge, extensive knowledge,
encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology † .
march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning;
schoolmaster abroad.
[person who knows much] scholar &c 492.
V. know, ken [Scot.], scan, wot † ; wot aware † , be aware of &c adj.; ween † , weet † , trow † ,
have, possess.
conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy [Slang],
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 480.1.
come to one's knowledge &c (information) 527.
Adj. knowing &c v.; cognitive; acroamatic † .
aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted with; privy to,
no stranger to; au fait with, 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 † , 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
[Fr.], to know all is to pardon all; empta dolore docet experientia [Lat.]; gnothi seauton
[Gr.]; half our knowledge we must snatch not take [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher
[G.], years teach more than books [G.]; 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 [G.].
491. Ignorance -- N. ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa [Lat.], crass ignorance, ignorance
crasse [Fr.]; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance † ; unconsciousness &c adj.; darkness,
blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity.
unknown quantities, x, y, z.
sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark ages.