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Definition of Comprehends
1. comprehend [v] - See also: comprehend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comprehends
Literary usage of Comprehends
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"Maintenance and support arc always granted ; but sustenance is that which is
taken or received : the former comprehends the means of obtaining food ..."
2. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1829)
"gobiemo of the Havannah comprehends, besides the capita], the district ...
The gobierno of Cuba comprehends Santiago de Cuba, Baracoa, Holguin, and Bayamo. ..."
3. The anatomy of melancholy, by Democritus iunior by Robert Burton (1838)
"]£Ч дне чес percipi a nobis negué comprehends passent ; or, put case г did
understand, yet they were altogether unprofitable : for what matter i for us ID ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"clear that his career comprehends the orbit of contemporary American life and
letters. He was not our highest and most influential writer; he was rather a ..."
5. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: With Physical Sections and Maps by Alexander von Humboldt (1822)
"... NEW SPAIN comprehends - A. Mexico Proper (el Reyno de Mexico). Territorial
extent: 51280 square leagues (or ..."
6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"... savala, Cuv., is still less elongated, and has a smaller eye 1. A second tribe
comprehends genera in which the mouth is small, and but slightly cleft. ..."
7. Lectures on the Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1902)
"The Persian Empire comprehends all the three geographical elements, which we
classified as distinct. First, the Uplands of Persia and Media ; next, ..."
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