Adverb
In an understanding manner; with empathy.
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[T]he proprietor smiled understandingly.
In a way that can be understood; intelligibly.
Usage- Obsolete
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Garcias ab Horto writes of one whom he saw at Goa in the East Indies, that took ten drams of opium in three days; and yet consulto loquebatur, spake understandingly […]
Adverb
with understanding
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she nodded understandingly