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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Understand

Understand (understand)
v. t.(1913 webster dictionaryn`d1913 webster dictionaryr*st1913 webster dictionarynd")
Un`der*stand"
v. t. [imp. *** p. p. Understood (?
  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.
    [Jocose *** R.] Shak.

    To give one to understand, to cause one to know. -- To make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear.

Understand

Understand (understand)
v. i.
Un`der*stand"
  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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