Ken appeared on the english horizon in the 16th century referring to the distance bounding the range of ordinary vision at sea (about 20 miles), and would thus have been familiar to skippers in particular See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. Its meaning soon broadened, however, to mean “range of vision” or “sight” on land or sea.
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[2] his parents were lyla smith (née tupper) burns, [3] a biotechnician, [4] and robert kyle burns jr., who at the time of ken's birth was a graduate student in cultural anthropology at columbia university [3] the documentary filmmaker ric burns is his younger brother [5][6] burns' academic family moved frequently. See examples of ken used in a sentence.
In this context, the phrase is infelicitous ' beyond one's ken ', in its ordinary usage, means beyond one's powers of comprehension. An idea beyond one's ken Range of sight or vision.
In common usage a fossil word, found only in phrases such as beyond one’s ken and swim into one’s ken.
