| 释义 |
knower|ˈnəʊə(r)|
[f. know v. + -er1.]
One who knows (in senses of the vb.).
1382Wyclif Job xvi. 20 Forsothe in heuene is my witness; am I knowere of myself in heiȝtis? a1533Ld. Berners Huon 449 Y⊇ beste lapidary and knower of stones that was in all the world. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 122, I will not be a knower, but a doer of thy law. 1681Temple Mem. iii. Wks. 1731 I. 334 The pretending Knowers among them,..pretended now to know nothing of it. c1728Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 277 An honest man, but no knower of men. 1881P. Brooks Serm. 88 Like the knowledge of the rocks or the stars, something quite independent of moral conditions in the knower.
†b. One who has or takes cognizance, a judge (L. cognitor). Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. iv. 100 (Camb. MS.) Yif thow weere..yset a Iuge or a knowere of thinges, trowestow þat men sholden tormenten hym þat hath don the wrong or elles hym þat hath suffred the wrong? 1581Styward Mart. Discipl. i. 65 God is the knower and deteminer. |