Word Meanings - NESCIENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to NESCIENCE)

• ABSENCE
  1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• AGNOSTICISM
  That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically:
• FETCH
  fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. sq. 1. To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. Time will run back and fetch the age
• IGNORANCE
  A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have. Book of Common Prayer. Invincible ignorance , ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God.
• NESCIENCE
  Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.
• FETCHER
  One wo fetches or brings.
• ABOUT-SLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• KNOWLEDGE
  The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, 1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance;
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• FARFETCHED
  1. Brought from far, or from a remote place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne. 2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• UNKNOWLEDGED
  Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
• ACKNOWLEDGER
  One who acknowledges.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
• SELF-IGNORANCE
  Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.
• MARABOUT
  A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
• FARFETCH
  To bring from far; to seek out studiously. To farfetch the name of Tartar from a Hebrew word. Fuller.
• FOREKNOWLEDGE
  Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton.
• HAULABOUT
  A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.
• WHEREABOUT; WHEREABOUTS
  1. About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form. 2. Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they are conversant."