The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comprehend \Com`pre*hend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Comprehended; p. pr. & vb. n. Comprehending.] [L. comprehendere, comprehensum; com- + prehendere to grasp, seize; prae before + hendere (used only in comp.). See Get, and cf. Comprise.]
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To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure.
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2. To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply.
Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion.
--Hobbes.And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying.
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To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand.
At a loss to comprehend the question.
--W. Irwing.Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend.
--Job. xxxvii. 5.Syn: To contain; include; embrace; comprise; inclose; grasp; embody; involve; imply; apprehend; imagine; conceive; understand. See Apprehend.
Wiktionary
1 understood. 2 Included; comprised; contained. v
(en-past of: comprehend)
WordNet
adj. fully understood or grasped; "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known" [syn: appreciated, apprehended]
Usage examples of "comprehended".
These always variable edicts at length comprehended the whole of the Roman legislature, and became the subject of the commentaries of the most celebrated lawyers.
We shall only remark, that they comprehended whatever could add strength to the body, activity to the limbs, or grace to the motions.
When Augustus gave laws to the conquests of his father, he introduced a division of Gaul, equally adapted to the progress of the legions, to the course of the rivers, and to the principal national distinctions, which had comprehended above a hundred independent states.
It comprehended all England, Wales, and the Lowlands of Scotland, as far as the Friths of Dumbarton and Edinburgh.
The provinces of Asia, without excepting the transient conquests of Trajan, are all comprehended within the limits of the Turkish power.
The beautiful and regular form of that great city, second only to Rome itself, comprehended a circumference of fifteen miles.
The praefect of the Gauls comprehended under that plural denomination the kindred provinces of Britain and Spain, and his authority was obeyed from the wall of Antoninus to the foot of Mount Atlas.
These philosophers did not consider that Platonism had undergone continual alterations, and that those who gave it some analogy with the notions of the Gnostics were later in their origin than most of the sects comprehended under this name Mosheim has proved (in his Instit.
The jurisdiction of the supreme pontiff, more especially after that office had been united with the Imperial dignity, comprehended the whole extent of the Roman empire.
But Faesulae, only three miles from Florence, might afford space for the head-quarters of Radagaisus, and would be comprehended within the circuit of the Roman lines.
This wall, which seems to have encircled the declivity of a hill, comprehended a great variety of wooden edifices, adapted to the uses of royalty.
They must therefore be considered as the basis of all the Roman jurisprudence comprehended in the Digest of Justinian.
Lex, which comprehended modes of acquiring in particular cases determined by law.
The original Hanseatic League comprehended Cologne and many of the great cities in the Netherlands and on the Rhine.
Knowing that the female human comprehended not a single wave of fingers or hands complicated Shanvordesep's response.