To give one to understand, to cause one to know.To make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear.

Understand
(Un`der*stand"), v. i.

1. To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.

Imparadised in you, in whom alone
I understand, and grow, and see.
Donne.

2. To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.

I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah.
Neh. xiii. 7.

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.

Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time, I you pray,
That we may understande what ye say.
Chaucer.

I understand not what you mean by this.
Shak.

Understood not all was but a show.
Milton.

A tongue not understanded of the people.
Bk. of Com. Prayer.

2. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.

3. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.

The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
Locke.

4. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.

War, then, war,
Open or understood, must be resolved.
Milton.

5. To stand under; to support. [Jocose & R.] Shak.


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