Meaning of beknow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To know about; have knowledge of; recognise; understand; be aware (of); be knowledgeable about.
   transitive
2. To acknowledge; own; confess.
   transitive

Examples

“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 [...]”

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