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understand | intellective |

As a verb understand

is (lb) to be aware of the meaning of.

As an adjective intellective is

of, related to, or caused by the intellect.

understand

English

Alternative forms

* understaund (obsolete)

Verb

  • (lb) To be aware of the meaning of.
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  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:I understand not what you mean by this.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}
  • To believe, based on information.
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  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.
  • To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
  • :
  • :In this sense, the word is usually used in the past participle:
  • ::
  • *(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • To stand under; to support.
  • :(Shakespeare)

    • Usage notes

    * Common objects of this verb include text'', ''word(s)'', ''sentence(s)'', ''note(s) , etc. * Rarely, the obsolete past tense form understanded'' may be found, e.g. in the ''Book of Common Prayer'' and ''Thirty-nine Articles of the Anglican Church .

    Synonyms

    * (to know the meaning) apprehend, comprehend, grasp, know, perceive, pick up what someone is putting down, realise, grok * (to believe) believe

    Antonyms

    * misunderstand

    Derived terms

    * I don’t understand * understandable * understanding * understood

    See also

    * explain * why

    External links

    * *

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words English irregular verbs English words prefixed with under-

    intellective

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, related to, or caused by the intellect.
  • * 2000 , Thomas Albert Sebeok, Marcel Danesi, The Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis ,
    • Intellective''' codes'' are those that have been designed to organize knowledge about some field, functioning as mental templates for understanding the world. A perfect example of an ' intellective code is that of trigonometry,
  • Having the capacity to reason and understand.
  • * 1907 , , Volume 1: Aachen–Assize,
    • It is to be found in the seventh anathema of Pope Damasus in the Council of Rome, 381. "We pronounce anathema against them who say that the Word of God is in the human flesh in lieu and place of the human rational and intellective''' soul. For, the Word of God is the Son Himself. Neither did He come in the flesh to replace, but rather to assume and preserve from sin and save the rational and '''intellective soul of man."
  • * 2000 , James B. Reichmann, Evolution, Animal 'Rights,' and The Environment , CUA Press (2000), ISBN 0813209544, page 219:
    • The human is, after all, the only truly intellective animal, and the language he employs is, as Bickerton observes, like no other form of animal communication.