ignorev.

Etymology: < Middle French, French ignorer not to know (something) (c1330), to pay no attention to (a person or thing) (beginning of the 15th cent.) < classical Latin ignōrāre not to know, to be ignorant of, to know nothing about, to be unfamiliar with, to fail to recognize, to take no notice of < ignārus not knowing, ignorant (see ignaro n.), with alteration of -ā- to -ō- after ignōtus ignote adj. Compare earlier ignorance n., ignorant adj.Compare Italian ignorare (late 13th cent.), Old Occitan ignorar , Catalan ignorar , Spanish ignorar (all 14th cent.), Portuguese ignorar (1563). In sense 1 frequently in the works of Robert Boyle, with whom it has been erroneously supposed to have originated; compare:1691 J. Ray Let. to Aubrey 22 Oct. in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) II. 159 You are not ignorant how Mr. Boyle hath been κωμωδουμενος for some new-coyned words, such as ignore and opine.1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Pref. p. lxxxvi The Examiner might have remember'd, before he had talk'd thus at large, who it was [i.e. Boyle] that distinguish'd his Style with Ignore and Recognosce and other words of that sort, which no body has yet thought fit to follow him in.1755–89 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Ignore,..this word Boyle endeavoured to introduce, but it has not been received.Todd (1818) points out that Johnson was wrong in holding the view that the word originated with Boyle, and notes its occurrence in Cotgrave (1611) and Sherwood (1632), but adds that ‘it is a word not worthy to be used’. Compare also:1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 673/1 The word ignore, which he threw in the teeth of Mr. Boyle..is, in fact, Hibernian, which Bentley did not know; and in England is obsolete, except in the use of grand juries.Sense 3 (the now usual sense of the word) was slow to gain general acceptance: N.E.D. (1899) comments that this sense ‘appears in the 19th cent., and was c1850 still used with apology’; compare also De Quincey's later note on his own comment in quot. 1830 above:1857 T. De Quincey R. Bentley (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay VII. 176 It was written in the summer of 1830, at which time no vestige of a suspicion had arisen that very soon the word would be called back; or rather would be raised from a lifeless toleration in law-books to a popular and universal currency. It was a word much wanted... Yet there are pedants who..would even now (1857) ignore this indispensable word.