Usually means: Comprehend or understand with conviction.
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  1. overstand: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. overstand: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overstand: Wordnik
  4. overstand: Wiktionary
  5. overstand: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Overstand, overstand: Dictionary.com
  7. Overstand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. overstand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Overstand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. overstand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. overstand: Free Dictionary
  12. Overstand: Dictionary/thesaurus

Definitions from Wiktionary (overstand)

verb:  (rare) To stand or insist too much or too long; overstay.
verb:  (transitive) To stand too strictly on the demands or conditions of.
verb:  (yachting, boat racing): To sail to the mark at a wider angle than is the normal upwind angle, to go beyond the layline
verb:  (forestry, of a coppice): To be neglected and left uncut for too long.
noun:  (lutherie) The measurement between the top plate and the fingerboard where the neck meets the body of the instrument.
verb:  (Rastafarianism, US black subculture): To have complete or intuitive comprehension of; to understand fully.

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