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underˈstood, pa. pple. and ppl. a.
[f. understand v.]
†1. Being made known or patent. Obs.—1
1576Lambarde Peramb. Kent 152 This done and vnder stoode to the Archbishop, she was by him appointed to S. Sepulcres.
2. Comprehended; thoroughly known.
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 124 Augures, and vnderstood Relations, haue..brought forth The secret'st man of Blood. 1661Boyle Style of Script. 48 By the light of understood Scriptures to penetrate the sense of the obscurer ones. a1700Evelyn Diary 12 Oct. 1677, The gardens are large,..and the husbandry part made very convenient and perfectly understood.
3. Agreed upon; assumed as known or fixed.
1607in W. H. Hale Prec. in Causes of Office (1841) 9 He doth now confesse that it was an understood part of his therein. 1833H. Martineau Fr. Wines & Pol. iii. 33 There had been established a tolerably steady rate of understood value. 1853Mrs. Gaskell Ruth xxiii, It was an understood thing that no one was to be ill or tired..without leave asked. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 317 Each chief takes a certain understood value in goods as a commission for himself.
4. Gram. Implied though not expressed.
1848J. T. White Xenophon's Anab. Notes 38 Observe the adverb between the article and the understood noun, supplying the place of an adjective. |