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ehended 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 pla…

Capable of being understood; intelligible. Chillingworth.

One who understands, or knows by experience. [R.] Dryden.

Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. J. Hawes.

Void of understanding. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.

Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

ity, a trust, duty, right, etc. He abdicates all right to be his own governor. Burke. The understanding abdicates its functions. Froude.

To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted

perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions. Perhaps, also, he felt his professional acuteness interested in bringing it to a suc…

s resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult. Offering an affront to our understanding. Addison.

in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

Imbecility; total want of understanding.

in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.

A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms. Chambers.