Misken vs Ken - What's the difference?
misken | ken | Derived terms |
To mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive.
To fail to know; be ignorant or unaware of; appear to be ignorant of.
To misunderstand; mistake; have the wrong idea of.
To esteem oneself incorrectly; have a false or exaggerated opinion of oneself or one's position.
To fail to recognise or identify.
To refuse to acknowledge; disown; repudiate; pass over; ignore; disregard; neglect; overlook; disavow; disclaim; disown; deny.
To fail to mention.
Knowledge or perception.
Range of sight.
To know, perceive or understand.
To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
* Addison
* Shakespeare
(slang, UK, obsolete) A house, especially a den of thieves.
English irregular verbs
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Misken is a derived term of ken.
As verbs the difference between misken and ken
is that misken is to mistake one for another; mistake in point of knowledge or recognition; misconceive while ken is to know, perceive or understand.As a noun ken is
knowledge or perception or ken can be (slang|uk|obsolete) a house, especially a den of thieves.misken
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* (l) * (l)ken
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Etymology 1
Northern and Scottish dialects from (etyl) . The noun meaning “range of sight” is a nautical abbreviation of present participle kenning.Noun
(-)Usage notes
In common usage a (fossil word), found only in the phrase .Coordinate terms
* (nautical range of sight) (l)Quotations
* (English Citations of "ken")Verb
- I proposed to the Mariners, that it would be of great benefit in Navigation to make use of [the telescope] upon the round-top of a ship, to discover and kenne Vessels afar off.
- We ken them from afar.''
- 'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gait.