Understand'

v. t. [-stood, -standing.] To just and adequate ideas of; to apprehend the ing or intention of; to know; to be apprised, information of; to hold or suppose to mean; terpret, ascribe intention to; to mean without pre ing, imply, — v. i. To have the use of the tellectual faculties; to be informed by another; learn. — Understanding, n. Act of a person understands anything; an agreement of opinion feeling; adjustment of differences; anything tually understood or agreed upon; power to understand; the intellectual faculty; power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing the medium or use of general conceptions or tions; knowledge; discernment; interpretation; planation; belief; harmony; sense; reason; intelligence; perception. — Understate', v. t. To state represent, le strongly than the truth will bear.