Pronunciation Verb
comprehend (comprehends, present participle comprehending; past and past participle comprehended)
- (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.1:
- And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
- 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Penguin 2009, p. 9:
- In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.1:
- To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly. [from 14th c.]
- French: comprendre
- German: umfassen
- Italian: comprendere
- Portuguese: compreender
- Russian: покрыва́ть
- French: comprendre
- German: verstehen, begreifen, erfassen, einsehen
- Italian: comprendere, capire
- Portuguese: compreender
- Russian: понима́ть
- Spanish: comprender
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