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Understand
UNDERSTAND', v.t. pret. and pp. understood. [under and stand. The sense is to support or hold in the mind.]
1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration.
2. To have the same ideas as the person who speaks, or the ideas which a person intends to communicate. I understood the preacher; the court perfectly understand the advocate or his argument.
3. To receive or have the ideas expressed or intended to be conveyed in a writing or book; to know the meaning. It is important that we should understand the sacred oracles.
4. To know the meaning or signs, or of anything intended to convey ideas; as, to understand a nod, a wink, or a motion.
5. To suppose to mean.
The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
6. To know by experience.
7. To know by instinct.
-Amorous intent, well understood.
8. To interpret, at least mentally.
9. To know another's meaning.
10. To hold in opinion with conviction.
11. To mean without expressing.
War then, war, open or understood must be resolv'd.
12. To know what is not expressed.
I bring them to receive from thee their names, and pay thee fealty with low subjection; understand the same of fish.
13. To learn; to be informed. I understand that congress have passed the bill.
UNDERSTAND', v.i.
1. To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent and conscious being.
All my soul be imparadis'd in you, in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see.
2. To be informed by another; to learn.
I understood of the evil that Eliashib did. Neh 13.
understand appears in definitions for these words:
Ability Abstraction Accept Accepting Act Acuteness Allegorize Allegorizing Amity Anatomy Apprehend Apprehending Apprehensive Apprehensiveness Aquitanian Arbor Architect Ascendency Beauty Believe Better Blind Blinding Blindly Blockhead Blockish Blunt Both Brahmin Brain Brainless Brainsick Brainsickly Brainsickness Cabala Candle Capable Capableness Capacitate Catalepsis Cavalier Clarify Clear Clearly Clout Co-operation Cognitive Collusion Communication Composition Comprehend Comprehending Comprehension Comprehensive Conceit Conceive Conscience Consider Construct Construction Construe Counsel Dark Dawning Deafness Declare Delineate Deprave Depth Devoid Digest Dim Disable Discern Discerner Discernible Distinguish Distort Diswitted Doctrine Dotage Doter Dull Dull-head Easy Educate Educating Education Emblem Enlighten Entangle Entrance Error Explainable Explained Explaining Explanation Explicatory Explicit Expounding Eye Faction Faith Falter Feebleness Financier Find Foggy Folly Fool Foolish Foolishly Foolishness Fop For Force Formality Getting Give Gumption Head Head-piece Headless Heart Heel Help Idea Idiocy Idiot Illumination Illumine Illustrated Imagination Imperfect Import Incapability Incapacitate Incapacity Incomprehensibly Incomprehension Inconclusively Indefinitude Insipience Inspiration Instruction Intellect Intellection Intellective Intellectual Intellectualist Intellectually Intelligence Intelligent Intelligential Intendiment Interpret Inunderstanding Inwit Iron Irrational Irrationality Judge Jurisprudent Ken Know Lackbrain Law Light Look Loosen Madly Madman Make Malady Manifest Manifestation Manifesto Market Metonymy Middling Mind Minute Misacceptation Misconceit Misconception Misguide Misinterpret Mistake Muddy-headed Mysterious Mysteriousness Narrow Natural Nature Notion Occult Odds Opinion Ornithologist Part Penetrate Penetrating Perceive Perplex Perspicacity Perspicuous Picture Plaice Plausibly Polyglot Practical Praecognita Preface Prejudice Premise Prerogative Profession Prosodist Proud Rail Rather Read Reading Reality Rote Roundly Run Sailor School Science Sconce See Seeing Seek Sense Servant Several Shallow Sharp-sighted Sharpness Short Shortsighted Show Sighted Signification Signify Silliness Silly Similar Site Sitting Skill Slow Smother Sophisticate Soul Sound Speak Strict Study Stupefactive Stupefy Stupid Stupidity Stupidly Subject Subordinate Superior Superiority Take Technical Tenor That Thing Thrive Turn Understand Understander Understanding Understandingly Understood Unintelligent Unobvious Unsoul Unwit View Volatileness Weak Will Wit Witless Witling Witted Wonder World Wronghead Wrongheaded
Ability Abstraction Accept Accepting Act Acuteness Allegorize Allegorizing Amity Anatomy Apprehend Apprehending Apprehensive Apprehensiveness Aquitanian Arbor Architect Ascendency Beauty Believe Better Blind Blinding Blindly Blockhead Blockish Blunt Both Brahmin Brain Brainless Brainsick Brainsickly Brainsickness Cabala Candle Capable Capableness Capacitate Catalepsis Cavalier Clarify Clear Clearly Clout Co-operation Cognitive Collusion Communication Composition Comprehend Comprehending Comprehension Comprehensive Conceit Conceive Conscience Consider Construct Construction Construe Counsel Dark Dawning Deafness Declare Delineate Deprave Depth Devoid Digest Dim Disable Discern Discerner Discernible Distinguish Distort Diswitted Doctrine Dotage Doter Dull Dull-head Easy Educate Educating Education Emblem Enlighten Entangle Entrance Error Explainable Explained Explaining Explanation Explicatory Explicit Expounding Eye Faction Faith Falter Feebleness Financier Find Foggy Folly Fool Foolish Foolishly Foolishness Fop For Force Formality Getting Give Gumption Head Head-piece Headless Heart Heel Help Idea Idiocy Idiot Illumination Illumine Illustrated Imagination Imperfect Import Incapability Incapacitate Incapacity Incomprehensibly Incomprehension Inconclusively Indefinitude Insipience Inspiration Instruction Intellect Intellection Intellective Intellectual Intellectualist Intellectually Intelligence Intelligent Intelligential Intendiment Interpret Inunderstanding Inwit Iron Irrational Irrationality Judge Jurisprudent Ken Know Lackbrain Law Light Look Loosen Madly Madman Make Malady Manifest Manifestation Manifesto Market Metonymy Middling Mind Minute Misacceptation Misconceit Misconception Misguide Misinterpret Mistake Muddy-headed Mysterious Mysteriousness Narrow Natural Nature Notion Occult Odds Opinion Ornithologist Part Penetrate Penetrating Perceive Perplex Perspicacity Perspicuous Picture Plaice Plausibly Polyglot Practical Praecognita Preface Prejudice Premise Prerogative Profession Prosodist Proud Rail Rather Read Reading Reality Rote Roundly Run Sailor School Science Sconce See Seeing Seek Sense Servant Several Shallow Sharp-sighted Sharpness Short Shortsighted Show Sighted Signification Signify Silliness Silly Similar Site Sitting Skill Slow Smother Sophisticate Soul Sound Speak Strict Study Stupefactive Stupefy Stupid Stupidity Stupidly Subject Subordinate Superior Superiority Take Technical Tenor That Thing Thrive Turn Understand Understander Understanding Understandingly Understood Unintelligent Unobvious Unsoul Unwit View Volatileness Weak Will Wit Witless Witling Witted Wonder World Wronghead Wrongheaded
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