Definition of Comprisal

1. n. The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome.

Definition of Comprisal

1. Noun. The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. ¹

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Definition of Comprisal

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Comprisal

compressive ear dressing
compressive myelopathy
compressive nystagmus
compressive strength
compressively
compressiveness
compressor
compressorium
compressors
compressure
comprimario
comprint
comprints
comprisal
comprisals
comprise
comprised
comprises
comprising
comprize
comprized
comprizes
comprizing
comprobation
comprobations
compromisation
compromisations
compromise

Literary usage of Comprisal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Heroic Play: A Critical Description of the Rhymed Tragedy of the by Lewis Nathaniel Chase (1903)
"The banishment of most of the elements of life, with the comprisal only of the concernments of love and war, those passions being employed in their simplest ..."

2. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1892)
"... good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, and a comprisal of every goodness in the propitiation of the righteous. 4. About2 CHAPTER XXXVII. ..."

3. The English Grammar Schools to 1660: Their Curriculum and Practice by Foster Watson (1908)
"... Preface to his Dictionary, 1664, which he describes as a ' comprisal' of the Latin Dictionaries of Thomas, Rider, Holland and Holyoke. ..."

4. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"... circulation, fire, light and sound, whilst the cube as a whole represents the seventh property in which the six are comprised, or the comprisal of all; ..."

5. The Sense of Humor by Max Eastman (1921)
"... having about as much scorn in its comprisal as one of those fervent salutations of Rabelais to his disciples— "Most noble and illustrious drinkers, ..."

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