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Understanding
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
(2):
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Understand
(3):
(n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
(4):
(a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
(5):
(n.) The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
(6):
(n.) An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Understanding'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/u/understanding.html. 1828.
