beknow
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "At length Alkimedon, his friend and comrade, right beknew it; [...]"
- "Do not think my reverend father that I am beknowing to all the affairs of the savages, there is a great deal wanting: they come to us about the affairs of their conscience, but as to the rest they consult us but little."
- "[...] when I went bolt into his dressing-room, not beknowing he was in it — why it is not likely, sir, that he comes again."
- "Know I as soon as dark's dreams begin Snared is my heart in a nightmare's gin; Never from terror I out may win; So dawn and dusk I pine, peak, thin, Scarcely beknowing t'other from which—My great grandam—She was a Witch."
- "For vnto the no nombre can be layd for to preſcrybe remiſſions off offence In hertes retornd, as thow thy ſellff haſt ſayd. And I, beknow my Fawt my neclegence [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English beknowen, biknowen, from Old English becnāwan (“to know, know about”), equivalent to be- + know. Cognate with Old High German bichnāan (“to recognise, see”).