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单词 knower
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knowern.

Brit. /ˈnəʊə/, U.S. /ˈnoʊər/
Forms: see know v. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: know v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < know v. + -er suffix1. Compare Middle Low German wēter , German †Wisser person who knows, (especially) philosopher (15th cent.), and also German Kenner (see reim-kennar n.) and its parallels in other Germanic languages.In sense 3 after classical Latin cognitor cognitor n.
1. An acquaintance, a friend. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted > acquaintance
friendOE
knowerc1350
acquainta1400
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acquaintancec1405
acquainted?c1566
conversant1589
acquaintant1611
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contact1931
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) liv. 14 (MED) Þou, God art..my lader and my knower.
2. A person who knows (in various senses of the verb).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > [noun] > one who knows
knowera1382
kenner1686
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > self-knowledge > [noun] > possessor of
knowera1382
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > [noun] > possessor of
knowerc1515
absorber1873
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xvi. 20 Forsothe in heuene is my witness; am I knowere [L. conscius] of myself in heiȝtis?
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 5 (MED) Therfore he, secrete knowere of his defautes, demyd hym self to slyde in-to that cruell a-downcast.
a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 19 (MED) Wherfore some that were seers and knowers of the prevytees and prophecie, they chesid of hem xii.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) 449 Ye beste lapidary and knower of stones that was in all the world.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. vi. 105 I will not be a knower but a doer of thy Lawe.
1608 M. Fotherby Fovre Serm. iii. 62 Some great and weighty thing,..whose bare knowledge is able to make all his knowers blessed.
1681 W. Temple Mem. iii, in Wks. (1731) I. 334 The pretending Knowers among them,..pretended now to know nothing of it.
c1728 Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 277 An honest man, but no knower of men.
1836 Introd. Disc. & Lect. Amer. Inst. Instr. xii. 259 That consummate philosopher, or knower of the human soul, Coleridge.
1881 P. Brooks Serm. 88 Like the knowledge of the rocks or the stars, something quite independent of moral conditions in the knower.
1958 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 71 443 The first view..holds that ideas are simply those objects with which the knower is directly presented.
2000 D. G. Ellis Crafting Society ii. 35 The knower of such information makes no distinction between himself and his knowledge.
3. A person who has or takes cognizance, a judge. Obsolete.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun]
demec825
doomerc888
deemerc950
demendOE
doomsmana1200
dempstera1300
trierc1330
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dooma1400
judge manc1410
knower?c1425
doomsterc1450
jurist1481
righter1566
tribune1587
syndicator1610
deemster1795
squire1817
judge-carl1818
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > judge
judgec1350
knower1581
?c1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr. Ii.3.21) (1886) iv. pr. iv. l. 100 Yif thow weere..yset a Iuge or a knowere of thinges [L. si igitur cognitor, ait, resideres], trowestow þat men sholden tormenten hym, þat hath don the wrong, or elles hym þat hath suffred the wrong.
1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline i. 65 God is the knower and determiner.
1657 T. Gilbert Assize Serm. 25 For this cause were Counsellors and (as some say) Judges of Old called Cognitores, knowers (as Prophets) Videntes, Seers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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