kenned

Verb (1)

ken (third-person singular simple present kens, present participle kenning, simple past and past participle kenned)

1. (obsolete) To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life).
   • To the soul this ghostly bread is the learning and the teaching and the understanding in the commandments of God, wherethrough the soul is kenned and lives.1524, Desiderius Erasmus, translated by Margaret Roper, A Devout Treatise upon the Paternoster

Verb (2)

ken (third-person singular simple present kens, present participle kenning, simple past and past participle kenned or kent)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To know, perceive or understand.
   • It was noted by them that kenned best that her cantrips were at their worst when the tides in the Sker Bay ebbed between the hours of twelve and one.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
2. (Scotland, obsolete) To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry.
   • 'Tis he. I ken the manner of his gate, / He riſes on the toe:c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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