Definition of "knowlege"

All we can plainly distinguish in regard to that Law, is that not only, for it to be Law, the Will of him whom it obliges must submit to it with Knowlege of such Obligation, but likewise that, for it to be natural, it must speak immediately by the Voice of Nature.

1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page lv

His Knowlege of the Kingdom of Heaven is looked upon to be sufficient, as soon as he knows it, as he knows that there is such a Place as Constantinople.

1752, William Law, The Way to Divine Knowlege, page 124

The principle of curiosity implanted in our breast, as the prime spring of knowlege, also concurs.

1789, John Pinkerton, An Essay on Medals, volume 1, page 39