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Webster 1913 Edition

Understandingly

Unˊder-stand′ing-ly

,
adv.
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently;
as, to vote upon a question
understandingly
; to act or judge
understandingly
.
The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be
understandingly
disbelieved.
J. Hawes.

Webster 1828 Edition

Understandingly

UNDERSTAND'INGLY

,
adv.
Intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension of a question or subject; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.
The gospel may be neglected, but it cannot be understandingly disbelieved.

Definition 2024

understandingly

understandingly

English

Adverb

understandingly ‎(comparative more understandingly, superlative most understandingly)

  1. In an understanding manner.
  2. (obsolete) In a way that can be understood; intelligibly.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.232:
      Garcias ab Horto writes of one whom he saw at Goa in the East Indies, that took ten drams of opium in three days; and yet consulto loquebatur, spake understandingly […].

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