underfindv.
Now dialect.
transitive. To perceive, 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
c1200 Vices & Virtues 99 Ȝif hie cumeð fram mannen, hie cann hwatliche underfinden, an hwos half he is icumen.
1320–30 Horn Ch. 623 Þe kniȝt toke a schaft in hand, & horn wele vnder-fand, Þat he couþe ride.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3664 If mi fader þat es now blind Mai mi fallace oght vnderfind, I dred me sare, for benison He sal me giue his malison.
a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Underfind, to understand. Derb.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. 263 He was here last neet, I underfind.
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