Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UN-DER-STAND', v.i.

1. To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent and conscious being. All my soul be / Imparadis'd in you, in whom alone / I understand, and grow, and see. Donne.
2. To be informed by another; to learn. I understood of the evil that Eliashib did. Neh. xiii.