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ken

  [ken] noun, verb, kenned or kent, ken⋅ning.
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–noun
1. knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
2. range of sight or vision.
–verb (used with object)
3. Chiefly Scot.
a. to know, have knowledge of or about, or be acquainted with (a person or thing).
b. to understand or perceive (an idea or situation).
4. Scots Law. to acknowledge as heir; recognize by a judicial act.
5. Archaic. to see; descry; recognize.
6. British Dialect Archaic.
a. to declare, acknowledge, or confess (something).
b. to teach, direct, or guide (someone).
–verb (used without object)
7. British Dialect.
a. to have knowledge of something.
b. to understand.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME kennen to make known, see, know, OE cennan to make known, declare; c. ON kenna, G kennen; akin to can 1
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ken   (kěn)   
n.  

  1. Perception; understanding: complex issues well beyond our ken.

    1. Range of vision.

    2. View; sight.

v.   kenned or kent (kěnt), ken·ning, kens Scots

v.   tr.

  1. To know (a person or thing).

  2. To recognize.

v.   intr.
To have knowledge or an understanding.

[From Middle English kennen (influenced by Old Norse kenna, to know), from Old English cennan, to declare; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

ken  (v.)
"to know," Scot. dial., from O.E. cennan "make known, declare, acknowledge," originally "make to know," causative of cunnan "to become acquainted with, to know" (see can (v.)). The noun meaning "range of sight" (1590) is a nautical abbreviation of kenning.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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