understanding

I (agreement) noun accord, accordance, alliance, arrangement, common view, compact, compliance, concord, concordance, congruence, consentaneity, contract, cooperation, covenant, harmony, like-mindedness, meeting of minds, mutual pledge, pact, rapport, unanimity associated concepts: express understanding, understanding of the parties foreign phrases:

- Conventio facit legem. — An agreement creates the law, i.e the parties to a binding contract will be held to their promises.

II (comprehension) noun apperception, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, conception, discernment, grasp, ingenium, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mens, mental ability, perception, power to understand, prehension, realization, reason, recognition, sense, wisdom associated concepts: intent, want of understanding foreign phrases:

- Sermones semper acclpiendi sunt secundum subjectam materiam, et condMonem personarum. — Language is always to be understood according to its subject matter and the condition of the person

- Probationes debent esse evidentes, id est, perspicuae et faclles intelligi. — Proofs ought to be evident, that is, clear and easily understood

- Quod tacite intelilgttur deesse non videtur. — What is tacitly understood does not appear to be wanting

III (tolerance) noun acceptance, altruism, benevolence, charitableness, compassion, condonation, consideration, empathy, good will, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, lack of prejudice, mercy, patience, sensitivity, sufferance, sympathy, toleration IV index accord, accordance (understanding), adjustment, affection, agreement (concurrence), agreement (contract), apprehension (perception), attornment, bargain, belief (state of mind), benevolence (disposition to do good), benevolent, caliber (mental capacity), charitable (lenient), cognition, cognizant, common sense, compact, comprehension, concept, conciliation, concordance, conscious (aware), consideration (sympathetic regard), consortium (marriage companionship), construction, contract, conviction (persuasion), covenant, deal, discrimination (good judgment), estimate (idea), experience (background), humanity (humaneness), inference, information (knowledge), insight, intellect, intelligence (intellect), judgment (discernment), juridical, knowing, knowledge (awareness), league, lenience, longanimity, notion, omniscient, option (contractual provision), pact, patient, perception, perceptive, perspicacious, placable, policy (contract), promise, protocol (agreement), quid pro quo, rapport, rapprochement, rational, realization, reason (sound judgment), receptive, reconciliation, sagacity, sane, sanity, scienter, sense (feeling), sense (intelligence), sensible, sensitive (discerning), settlement, specialty (contract), stipulation, term (provision), tolerance, treaty, vicarious (delegated)