Sc. Also 6 kennit. [KEN v.1] Northern and western Sc. form of KENNED, known.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, I. x. 52. My childe, cleith the with ȝone kennit [v.r. kend] childis visage.

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c. 1787.  Burns, To a Painter. You’ll easy draw a weel-kent face.

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1801.  Macneill, Poet. Wks. (1856), 146 (E. D. D.). Far frae ilk kent spot she wandered.

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1888.  Stevenson, in Scribner’s Mag., May, 635. A gentleman … should mean a man of family, ‘one of a kent house.’

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