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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
understood
adj
  1. fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation; "the understood conditions of troop withdrawal were clear"
    Antonym(s): ununderstood
  2. implied by or inferred from actions or statements; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement"
    Synonym(s): silent, tacit, understood
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Understand \Un`der*stand"\ ([ucr]n`d[etil]r*st[acr]nd"), v. t.
      [imp. & p. p. {Understood}, and Archaic {Understanded}; p.
      pr. & vb. n. {Understanding}.] [OE. understanden, AS.
      understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan
      to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is not
      clear. See {Under}, and {Stand}.]
      1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the
            meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to
            comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in
            Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the
            court understands the advocate or his argument; to
            understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a
            wink.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Understood \Un`der*stood"\,
      imp. & p. p. of {Understand}.
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