ignote meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

ignote

adj

/ɪɡˈnəʊt/

Etymology From Latin ignotus; prefix in- (“not”) + gnotus, notus (“known”), past participle of gnocere, nocere (“to learn, to know”).

a. 1697, John Aubrey, letter I am an ignote fellow and but of little learning.
A traveller passing through the confines of ignote countries.1634, Miles Sandys, Essays:

noun

Etymology From Latin ignotus; prefix in- (“not”) + gnotus, notus (“known”), past participle of gnocere, nocere (“to learn, to know”).

Obsolete One who is unknown.

More light is opened to this in a Letter that an Ignote Wrote to K. Jumes1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:

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