"thus understood" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to introduce an opinion or conclusion that has been reached after examining evidence or a line of reasoning. For example: "The poem is complicated, but its themes can be thus understood: life is precious and shouldn't be taken for granted."
Thus understood, comedy isn't just Mock the Week, but invariably mocks the weak.
The drug war, thus understood, is a crime against our most vulnerable population, those in serious, chronic pain.
"Supplementarity", thus understood, is a manifestation of differance; and other manifestations are explored in Derrida's discussions of the Greek terms pharmakon (both medicine and poison) and hymen (both separation and marriage) in his next major work La Dissémination (Dissemination, 1972).
Disability began to be understood as a limitation in performing the roles and tasks expected of an individual within a social environment and was thus understood as referring to an individual's performance of activities related to social roles.
Thus understood, there was by definition almost but not quite no typography before the invention of printing from movable type in the mid-15th century; and, thus understood, it is only by analogical extension that the term can be applied, if ever it can be, to "reading" in which the material at hand is something other than words that remain stationary on flat firm surfaces.
In this version of tawhid, believers are thus understood to be duty-oriented beings who can touch the gates of heaven only by obeying religious authorities, the only ones deemed capable of deciphering God's word, and by fulfilling duties as defined by these authorities.
Reid rejects eudaimonism thus understood.
Thus understood, the trope is an unstructured, ontologically simple, entity.
Reid maintains that eudaimonism thus understood is false.
Casuistry, thus understood, is an indispensable aid to moral reasoning.
How then does the Zen person, thus understood, live freedom?
