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Webster 1913 Edition


Unknow

Un-know′

,
Verb.
T.
[1st
un-
+
know
.]
1.
To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of.
[Obs.]
2.
To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of.
[Obs.]

Un-know′

,
Adj.
[See
Un-
not,
Know
.]
Unknown.
[Obs.]
“French of Paris was to her unknow.”
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unknow

UNKNOW

,
Verb.
T.
To cease to know. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


unknow

unknow

English

Verb

unknow (third-person singular simple present unknows, present participle unknowing, simple past unknew, past participle unknown)

  1. To undo the process of knowing, to lose knowledge of something.
    • 2004, William Joseph Jackson, Heaven's fractal net: retrieving lost visions in the humanities: Volume 1 (page 205)
      To awaken the conscious self to the principle of the whole or Tao one needs to forget oneself, so that in knowing one unknows.