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Understanding :: Understanding (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..

Take :: Take (v. t.) To admit, as, something presented to the mind; not to dispute; to allow; to accept; to receive in thought; to entertain in opinion; to understand; to interpret; to regard or look upon; to consider; to suppose; as, to take a thing for granted; this I take to be man's motive; to take men for spies..

Acuteness :: Acuteness (n.) The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions..

Misunderstanding :: Misunderstanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misunderstan.

Con :: Con (v. t.) To know; to understand; to acknowledge.

Witless :: Witless (a.) Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment..

Evident :: Evident (a.) Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident..

Accept :: Accept (v. t.) To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted?.

Harmonist :: Harmonist (n.) One who understands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.

Inwit :: Inwit (n.) Inward sense; mind; understanding; conscience.

Misinterpret :: Misinterpret (v. t.) To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

Heel :: Heel (n.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel; as, the horse understands the heel well..

Deafness :: Deafness (n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.

Brain :: Brain (v. t.) To conceive; to understand.

Understand :: Understand (v. t.) To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.

Wit :: Wit (v.) Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.

Lackbrain :: Lackbrain (n.) One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person.

Allegorize :: Allegorize (v. t.) To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it..

Sensualism :: Sensualism (n.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism..

Understanding :: Understanding (a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man..

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