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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Comprehend \Com'pre*hend"\, verb (used with an object) [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}.
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