underˈfind, v. Now dial.
[under-1 8 a. Cf. Du. ondervinden.]
trans. To perceive, understand.
| c 1200 Vices & Virtues 99 Ȝif hie cumeð fram mannen, hie cann hwatliche underfinden, an hwos half he is icumen. a 1300 Cursor M. 3664 If mi fader þat es now blind Mai mi fallace oght vnderfind, I dred me sare, for benison He sal me giue his malison. 1320–30 Horn Ch. 623 Þe kniȝt toke a schaft in hand, & horn wele vnder-fand, Þat he couþe ride. a 1800 Pegge Suppl. Grose, Underfind, to understand. Derb. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss. 263 He was here last neet, I underfind. |