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Bible Dictionaries
Understand
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
(2):
(v. t.) To stand under; to support.
(3):
(v. t.) To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
(4):
(v. t.) 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.
(5):
(v. t.) To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
(6):
(v. i.) To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
(7):
(v. i.) To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Understand'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/u/understand.html. 1828.
