† perstandv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To understand.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)]
yknoweOE
acknowOE
anyeteOE
latchc1000
undernimc1000
understandc1000
underyetec1000
afindOE
knowOE
seeOE
onfangc1175
takec1175
underfindc1200
underfonga1300
undertakea1300
kenc1330
gripea1340
comprehend1340
comprendc1374
espyc1374
perceivea1387
to take for ——?1387
catcha1398
conceivea1398
intenda1400
overtakea1400
tenda1400
havec1405
henta1450
comprise1477
skilla1500
brook1548
apprend1567
compass1576
perstanda1577
endue1590
sound1592
engrasp1593
in1603
fathom1611
resent1614
receivea1616
to take up1617
apprehend1631
to take in1646
grasp1680
understumblec1681
forstand1682
savvy1686
overstand1699
uptake1726
nouse1779
twig1815
undercumstand1824
absorb1840
sense1844
undercumstumble1854
seize1855
intelligize1865
dig1935
read1956
a1577 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers in Wks. (1587) 44 First then you must perstand, I am no stranger I But English boy, in England borne.
1599 Hist. Syr Clyomon & Clamydes sig. A3 v But Lady say, what is your will, that it I may perstand?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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- get the willies
- get the wind up
- get the wire
- get the wissel of one's groat
- get the works
- get the worse
- get the worse end of the staff
- get the worse of
- get the worship of
- get the worst
- get the worst of
- get the worst of it
- get the wrong end of the pineapple
- get the wrong end of the stick
- get thee away, hence, in, out
- get thee behind me, satan
- get thee gone
- get thee you away, hence, in, out
- get thee you gone
- get theirs
- get there
- get there fustest with the mostest
- get through
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