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comprehend

verb
/kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnd/UK/ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnd/CA/kɔmpɹɪˈhend/

Etymology

From Middle English comprehenden, from Latin comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”). Doublet of comprend.

  1. derived from comprehendere — “to grasp”
  2. inherited from comprehenden

Definitions

  1. To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly

    To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb.

    • I just can't comprehend how someone could be a butcher and vegetarian at the same time.
    • Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend The wondrous Architecture of the world: And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe, Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]

  2. To include, comprise

    To include, comprise; to contain.

    • And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
    • The King being resolved to have a Peace concluded at any Rate, sent us at last to Monsieur des Farges, who would hearken to no Treaty, without allowing us the benefit of being comprehended in it, by which means our liberty was obtain'd.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

comprehender, comprehendible, miscomprehend, precomprehend

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at comprehend. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at comprehend. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at comprehend

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA