3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. --Is. xl. 12. [1913 Webster] 2. To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply. [1913 Webster] Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion. --Hobbes. [1913 Webster] And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying. --Rom. xiii. 9. [1913 Webster] 3. To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand. [1913 Webster] At a loss to comprehend the question. --W. Irwing. [1913 Webster] 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}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}, {apprehended}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 23 Moby Thesaurus words for "comprehended": appreciated, apprehended, ascertained, bound up with, comprised, conceived, covered, discerned, down pat, embraced, encompassed, envisaged, grasped, included, involved, known, pat, perceived, prehended, realized, recognized, seized, understood
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