con
/kɑn/
UK: /kɒn/
con
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Definition
To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart.
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English connen English con Inherited from Middle English connen, inherited from Old English cunnan (“to know, know how”), inherited from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan (“recognize, know how”), inherited from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną (“to know, know how”), inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) Doublet of can.
Example Sentences
- "For Caſſius is a-weary of the World: / Hated by one he loues, brau'd by his Brother, / Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obſeru'd, / Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate / To caſt into my Teeth."
- "At length, himself unsettling, he the pond / Stirred with his staff, and fixedly did look / Upon the muddy water, which he conned, / As if he had been reading in a book"
- "I did not come into parliament to con my lesson. I had earned my pension before I set my foot in St. Stephen's chapel."
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