comprehend
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere, from the prefix com- + prehendere.
Pronunciation Verbcomprehend (comprehends, present participle comprehending; simple past and past participle comprehended)
- (now rare) To include, comprise; to contain. [from 14th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:
- 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, published 2009, page 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.
- To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb [from 14th c.]
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC ↗; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii ↗:
- Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend
The wondrous Architecture of the world:
And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe,
Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]
- French: comprendre
- German: umfassen
- Italian: comprendere
- Portuguese: compreender
- Russian: покрыва́ть
- Spanish: comprender
- French: comprendre
- German: verstehen, begreifen, erfassen, einsehen
- Italian: comprendere, capire
- Portuguese: compreender
- Russian: понима́ть
- Spanish: comprender, comprehender
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