However, in the last 50 years or so--every time I've come across it and every time I've used it--it has meant TO KNOW, TO UNDERSTAND comprehensively, immersively.
All true. But later in the book, Valentine Michael Smith explains that the literal meaning of the verb is to drink. From that simple denotation, large connotations arise.
1,004 posted on 04/27/2018 6:07:54 PM PDT by Publius