资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

      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.

   {To give one to understand}, to cause one to know.

   {To make one's self understood}, to make one's meaning clear.