To be apprised, or have information, of to learn to be informed of to hear as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.ģ. Milton.Ī tongue not understanded of the people. Speaketh so plain at this time, I you pray, That we may understande what ye say. 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. Understand Un`der*stand" (ŭn`dẽr*stănd"), v. I use the term understanding, not for the noetic faculty, intellect proper, or place of principles, but for the dianoetic or discursive faculty in its widest signification, for the faculty of relations or comparisons and thus in the meaning in which “verstand” is now employed by the Germans. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason. Specifically, the discursive faculty the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In its wider acceptation, understanding is the entire power of perceiving an conceiving, exclusive of the sensibility: the power of dealing with the impressions of sense, and composing them into wholes, according to a law of unity and in its most comprehensive meaning it includes even simple apprehension. All these are attributed to the understanding, or perceptive power, though it be the two latter only that use allows us to say we understand. The perception of the connection or repugnancy, agreement or disagreement, that there is between any of our ideas. The perception of the signification of signs 3. Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is of three sorts: 1. The power of perception is that which we call the understanding. The power to understand the intellectual faculty the intelligence the rational powers collectively conceived an designated the higher capacities of the intellect the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.īut there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. He hoped the loyalty of his subjects would concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people. An agreement of opinion or feeling adjustment of differences harmony anything mutually understood or agreed upon as, to come to an understanding with another. The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb knowledge discernment comprehension interpretation explanation.Ģ. an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension" "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature" the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business" "there was an understanding between management and the workers"Ħ. an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion "his sympathies were always with the underdog" "I knew I could count on his understanding"ĥ. the cognitive condition of someone who understands "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"Ĥ. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"ģ. understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something "he has a good grasp of accounting practices"Ģ.
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