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Definition of Comprising
1. comprise [v] - See also: comprise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comprising
Literary usage of Comprising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Mongolian Race: (a) Eskimo; (b) The Mongols proper, comprising the Mongolo-Altaic
group; and the southern Mongolian group; (c) Malayans; (d) Polynesians, ..."
2. American Book Prices Current (1901)
"WORKS, comprising: Five Great Monarchies, 3 vols.; Sixth Great Monarchy; ...
(255) $16.00 7032 WORKS, comprising: History of Herodotus, 4 vols., 1862; ..."
3. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1858)
"Unions in Middlesex, one the Holborn Union, comprising two separate parishes,
the other the Strand Union, comprising five; and three Unions in Surrey, viz., ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"Clinical Midwifery ; comprising the Histories of five hundred and forty- fat case» of
... THIS volume consists of a series of eight Reports, comprising, ..."
5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1864)
"Climate: an Inquiry into the Causes of its Differences, and into its Influence
on Vegetable Life', comprising the Substance of four Lectures delivered ..."
6. The Philological and Biographical Works of Charles Butler, Esquire, of by Charles Butler (1817)
"PART I. comprising the Period, from the General Division of the Roman Empire,
... was assigned to the former; the Empire of the West, comprising Italy, ..."
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