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beyond your ken (old-fashioned) if sth is beyond your ken, you do not know enough about it to be able to understand it
verb (-nn-) [V, VN, V(that), Vwh-] (ScotE, NorthE) to know
HELPNOTE Kent is the usual form of the past tense used in Scotland.
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