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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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284 words match “UNDERSTAND”

MISAPPREHEND v.
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.
MISAPPREHENSION n.
A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
MISATTEND v.
To misunderstand; to disregard. [Obs.] Milton.
MISCOGNIZE v.
To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand. [Obs.] Holland.
MISCOMPREHEND v.
To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.
MISCONCEPTION n.
Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding. Harvey.
MISGUIDE v.
To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
MISINTELLIGENCE n.
Disagreement; misunderstanding. [Obs.]
MISINTERPRET v.
To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
MISREAD v.
To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.
MISREGARD n.
Wrong understanding; misconstruction. [Obs.] Spenser.
MISTAKE v. 3 definitions
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak.
MUDDY a.
loudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. Cold hearts and muddy understandings. Burke. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. Shak.
MYSTERIOUS a.
Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; obscure not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible. God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied, Thought in mysterious terms. Milton.
MYSTERY n.
ry of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind. Swift.
MYSTIC; MYSTICAL a.
Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious. Heaven's numerous hierarchy span The mystic gulf from God to man. Emerson. God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural. Hooker.
MYSTIFY v.
To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
NARROW a.
tracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views. "A narrow understanding." Macaulay.
NATURAL n.
One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot. "The minds of naturals." Locke.
NOEMATIC; NOEMATICAL a.
Of or pertaining to the understanding. [Obs.] Cudworth.
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