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understand
v. t. [OE. understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is not clear. See Under, and Stand.]1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink. ()
Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time, I you pray, That we may understande what ye say. (Chaucer.)
I understand not what you mean by this. (Shak.)
Understood not all was but a show. (Milton.)
A tongue not understanded of the people. (Bk. of Com. Prayer.)
2. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill. ()
3. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. ()
The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel. (Locke.)
4. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume. ()
War, then, war, Open or understood, must be resolved. (Milton.)
5. To stand under; to support. (Shak.)
To give one to understand, to cause one to know. -- To make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear. ()
v. i. 1. To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being. ()
Imparadised in you, in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see. (Donne.)
2. To be informed; to have or receive knowledge. ()
I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah. (Neh. xiii. 7.)


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