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undernimen (third-person singular simple present undernimeth, present participle undernimmende, first-/third-person singular past indicative undernam, past participle undernome or undernum)

1. (transitive) to seize; catch; grasp
2. (transitive) to perceive or understand
   • 1858 (original: circa 1400), Mary Cowden Clarke (editor), Geoffrey Chaucer (author), The Canterbury Tales, in World-noted Women; Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Land and Ages, page 107:

     "And with that word Tiburce his brother come;
     And whan that he the savour undernome*
     Which that the roses and the lillies cast […]
     *Undernome—undertook—took in subordinately;—as it were, dimly perceived the scent of the flowers he could not see.

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3. (transitive) to blame; reprove; rebuke; reprimand; reprehend
   • 2004 (original: 1357–1371), John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville:

     Alas! that it is great slander to our faith and to our law, when folk that be without law shall reprove us and undernim us of our sins, [...]

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   • 2012 (original: ????), Sammy R Browne, A Brief Anthology of English Literature (Lulu.com, →ISBN), page 190:

     And, when she came to the point for to say that thing which she had so long concealed, her confessor was a little too hasty and gan sharply to undernim her ere that she had fully said her intent, and so she would no more say […]

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