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under-standan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
under-standan, p. -stód, pl. -stódon; pp. -standen.
to understand, have insight into
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  • Ðú genóh wel understentst ðæt ic ðé tó sprece,

    • Bt. 13
      • ;
    • Fox 38, 1.

  • Se godcunda foreþonc hit understent eall swiþe ryhte ... wé ne cunnon ðæt riht understandan,

    • 39, 8
      • ;
    • Fox 224, 19-21.

  • Gecýðnessa ðíne ic ongeat ł understód

    testimonia tua intellexi,

    • Ps. Lamb. 118, 95.

  • Understand ðás gesihðe

    intellige visionem (Dan. 9, 23),

    • Homl. Th. ii. 14, 9.

  • Ðam men is gemǽne mid englum ðæt hé understande

    • i. 302, 22.

  • Eal ðæt syndon micle and egeslíce dǽda, understande se ðe wille,

    • Wulfst. 161, 9.

  • Understande se ðe cunne,

    • 162, 12.

  • Snotornys, þurh ða seó sáwel sceal hyre Scippend understandan,

    • Homl. Skt. i. 1, 557.

  • Ðæt wé magon understandan ða þing ðe ðú specst

    ut possimus intelligere quae loqueris,

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 32, 15.

  • Swǽ clǽne hió ( learning ) wæs óðfeallenu on Angelcynne ðæt swíðe feáwa wǽron behionan Humbre ðe hiora ðéninga cúðen understondan,

    • Past. pref.
      • ;
    • Swt. 3, 14.

  • Gehwá ðe his ágene þearfe wille understandan,

    • L. Eth. vi. 27
      • ;
    • Th. i. 322, 9.
Grammar
under-standan, with prep. ymbe :
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  • -- Ne mæg nán gesceaft fulfremedlíce smeágan ne understandan ymbe God ... Englas ne magon fulfremedlíce understandan ymbe

    • God, Homl. Th. i. 10, 2-5.
to understand, perceive, know certainly
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  • Understand be ðám hú se ælmihtiga God hí ealle gesceóp bútan antimbre

    know certainly concerning them, how that the almighty God created them all without matter,

    • Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 178.

  • Understandaþ eác georne, ðæt deófol ðás þeóde dwelode,

    • Wulfst. 156, 7.

  • Understanden (beón)

    deprehendi,

    • Hpt. Gl. 526, 18:

    conjici,

    • 469, 30.
    • [I do gowe to understonden ego notifico nobis,
    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iv. 218, 15.
    ]
to understand in such and such a sense, to conceive of, consider
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  • Ne understand ðú hit mé tó unrihtwísnesse

    do not consider it as unrighteousness in me,

    • Ps. Th. 21, 2.

  • Gif ic eáðmódlíce me sylfne ne understóde, ac mín mód on módignesse anhófe

    si non humiliter sentiebam, sed exaltavi animam meam,

    • R. Ben. 22, 18.
Grammar
under-standan, with prep. be :
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  • -- Ǽwfæstlíce understandende be úre ealra ǽriste

    piously conceiving of the resurrection of us all,

    • Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 472.
to accept as correct :
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  • -- Ðis ylce understand be ðám óðrum dagum

    take the same rule as applicable in the case of the other days,

    • Anglia viii. 304, 29.
to observe, notice, consider
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  • Understand (or I) rǽdere, hwæt seó rǽding cwyð,

    • Anglia viii. 309, 1.

  • Understand míne sprǽce

    animadverte sermonem (Dan. 9, 23),

    • Homl. Th. ii. 14, 9.

  • Ðæt tó understandenne ealle gedémdon

    hoc adtendendum cuncti decreuerunt,

    • Anglia xiii. 371, 90.

  • Ðæt geswinc his sýðfætes ne understandende hé mid hrædestan ryne arn,

    • Homl. Skt. ii. 23 b, 186.

  • On dehter ná understandendre

    in filia non aduertente se,

    • Scint. 225, 7.
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v.  for-standan.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “under-standan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/32847.

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