Undernim

Origin

From , from , equivalent to - + under + nim. Cognate with , .

Full definition of undernim

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To seize; catch; grasp.
2. (transitive, obsolete) 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 percieved the scent of the flowers he could not see.
3. (transitive, obsolete) 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, ...
• 2012 (original

• 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 ...