comprehend

Definition

To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly; to plumb.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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, […]"
• "And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […]."

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