Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions. Locke.

There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges. Bacon.

Knowledges is a term in frequent use by Bacon, and, though now obsolete, should be revived, as without it we are compelled to borrow "cognitions" to express its import. Sir W. Hamilton.

To use a word of Bacon's, now unfortunately obsolete, we must determine the relative value of knowledges. H. Spencer.

Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 1 Cor. viii. 1.

Ignorance is the curse of God;
Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. Shak.

Shipmen that had knowledge of the sea. 1 Kings ix. 27.

Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldst take knowledge of me? Ruth ii. 10.

Syn. -- See Wisdom.