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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Understand \Un`der*stand"\ ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Understood}, and Archaic {Understanded}; p. pr &
vb n. {Understanding}.] [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Understood \Un`der*stood"\,
imp. & p. p. of {Understand}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
understood
adj 1: fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation;
"the understood conditions of troop withdrawal were
clear" [ant: {ununderstood}]
2: indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed
directly; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the
understood provisos of a custody agreement" [syn: {implied},
{silent}, {tacit}]
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