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/kˌɑmprihˈɛnd/ Listen

verb

Comprehend v. t. (past & past part. comprehended; pres. part. comprehending)

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."

To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply. "Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion." "And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying."

To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand. "At a loss to comprehend the question." "Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend."

Synonyms: To contain; include; embrace; comprise; inclose; grasp; embody; involve; imply; apprehend; imagine; conceive; understand. See Apprehend.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Comprehend" Quotes from Famous Books

... shades which one sees over fancy clocks and articles of bijouterie. This cover is composed of over six hundred pieces of glass, arranged in a complicated and scientific system of lenses and prisms, very difficult to comprehend, but very beautiful in the result; for every ray of light from that brilliant flame is shivered into a thousand glittering arrows, reflected, refracted, tinted with all the rainbow hues, and finally projected through the clear plate-glass windows of the lantern with all the force and brilliancy ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various

... happily found in a monastery; and he exhorted them to insist on the renewal and observance of it: the barons swore, that they would sooner lose their lives than depart from so reasonable a demand [x]. The confederacy began now to spread wider, and to comprehend almost all the barons in England; and a new and more numerous meeting was summoned by Langton at St. Edmondsbury, under colour of devotion. [MN Nov. 1.] He again produced to the assembly the old charter of Henry; renewed his exhortations of unanimity and vigour in the prosecution ...

— The History of England, Volume I • David Hume

... the Admiral is far more capable than I of estimating it at its true worth. It is a matter for a naval man to comprehend and decide." ...

— Dave Darrin on Mediterranean Service - or, With Dan Dalzell on European Duty • H. Irving Hancock

... a pie as well as anybody," answered Sam, who, however, not being acquainted with the Greek alphabet, did not quite comprehend the joke. ...

— Sam's Chance - And How He Improved It • Horatio Alger

... beside him, and stopped abruptly, shaken by a sudden consciousness that had never before occurred to him. Could it be that out of her own experience she did comprehend? She looked up piteously and her face ...

— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

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