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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
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, ..."