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The comfortable past tense of a verb that secretly means trust.
means Recognized, established, or familiar — information held with enough certainty to act on.
from From Old English cnawan, to recognize or perceive; the silent k once spoke aloud, a fossil in modern spelling.
Silent letterThe k was pronounced until roughly the 1600s.
Donald RumsfeldMade known knowns and unknowns globally famous.
Verb rootShares ancestry with can, cunning, and acquaint.