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I wondered to myself tonight, "What does it mean to know something?"

Know, to be assured of. (English.) Middle English knowen. Anglo-Saxon cnawan (past tense cneow, past participle cnawen). + Icelandic kna, Old High German chnaan. Further allied to Russian znate, to know; Latin noscere (for gnoscere); Greek gi-gnoskein; Sanskrit jnd, to know. (All from a base GNA, a secondary form of GAN, to know.)

Assure. See Cure.

Cure. (French = Latin.) Old French cure. = Latin cura, attention.

assure. (French = Latin.) Middle English assuren = Old French aseurer, to make secure. = Old French a (= Latin ad); seur, sure.

secure. (Latin.) Latin se-curus, free from anxiety. = Latin se-, apart from; cura, anxiety.



I am a gnostic. I am one who knows.