understandingly

adv

Etymology: From Middle English undirstondingli, understandandly, equivalent to understanding + -ly.

1. In an understanding manner; with empathy.

   “[T]he proprietor smiled understandingly.”

2. In a way that can be understood; intelligibly.

   “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 […]”