Meanings
verb
- archaicindicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of understand
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 3:111 more example
He rejoined, “Thy calling is of no account in our city, where not a soul understandeth science or even writing or aught save money-making.”
1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Second Kalandar’s Tale. [Night 12.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 115
Origin
From understand + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix.
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