OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 20423

comprehend

/kɒmpɹɪˈhɛnd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
comprehender (disused) • comprender • diquelar • percanzar (disused)
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.
comprender
To include, comprise; to contain.
And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
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.