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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
understand .
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Examples
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[11] There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
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'She knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power ... and then shall I judge thy people righteously.'
Archbishop preaches at 400th Anniversary of the Granting of the Royal Charter 2008
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Said the slave, ‘O my lord, wilt thou go in to one who understandeth or to one who understandeth not?’
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“Verily, this King understandeth geomancy: blessed be He who hath gifted him!”
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'She knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall lead me soberly in my doings, and preserve me in her power ... and then shall I judge thy people righteously.'
Archbishop preaches at 400th Anniversary of the Granting of the Royal Charter 2008
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For St. Paul, speaking of the resurrection, understandeth it only of the resurrection to life eternal, and not the resurrection to punishment. 425 And of the first, he saith that the body is "sown in corruption, raised in incorruption; sown in dishonour, raised in honour; sown in weakness, raised in power; sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body."
Leviathan 2007
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Nor are we therefore to give that name to any false conclusions; for he that reasoneth aright in words he understandeth can never conclude an error:
Leviathan 2007
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Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?
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There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
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Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
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