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.