knowest
Archaic for perceive
Knowest is an archaic second-person singular form of know, used with thou in Early Modern English.
It appears frequently in the King James Bible and Shakespeare: Thou knowest the truth.
Like other -est verb endings (dost, hast, sayest), it survives mainly in religious texts, historical fiction, and deliberately old-fashioned speech.
Archaic second-person pronoun
Grasp the meaning
- perceiveBecome conscious of
- recognizePerceive as known
- comprehendTo fully understand
- discernPerceive with careful attention
grasp · fathom · realize · apprehend · conceive · recall · remember · recollect
thou
Archaic second-person pronoun
hast · dost · doth · art · shalt · wilt · ye · whence · wherefore · prithee
understand
Grasp the meaning
- perceiveBecome conscious of
- recognizePerceive as known
- comprehendTo fully understand
discern · grasp · fathom · realize · apprehend · conceive · recall · remember · recollect · believe
Shakespeare
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
sonnet · soliloquy · monologue · playwright · bard · King James · psalm · epistle · tragedy · drama
know, knowledge, known, knowing, unknown, acknowledge, knows, acknowledged, knowledgeable