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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]
1. 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. --Is. xl 12.
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. --Rom. xiii.
9.
3. 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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
comprehended
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},
{apprehanded}]
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