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COMPREHENDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fully understood or grasped
Example:
a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known
Synonyms:
appreciated; apprehended; comprehended
Classified under:
Similar:
understood (fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb comprehend
Context examples:
Mrs. Price, in her turn, was injured and angry; and an answer, which comprehended each sister in its bitterness, and bestowed such very disrespectful reflections on the pride of Sir Thomas as Mrs. Norris could not possibly keep to herself, put an end to all intercourse between them for a considerable period.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
She could not distinguish, but she must guess the subject; and on Captain Wentworth's making a distant bow, she comprehended that her father had judged so well as to give him that simple acknowledgement of acquaintance, and she was just in time by a side glance to see a slight curtsey from Elizabeth herself.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He comprehended everybody present, in the respectful bow with which he followed these words, and disappeared.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A little thing, truly, but when multiplied by the thousand ingenious devices of such a mind, the mental state of the men in the forecastle may be slightly comprehended.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She was obliged to repeat and explain it, before it was fully comprehended; and then, being quite new, farther representations were necessary to make it acceptable.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She speedily comprehended all his merits; the persuasion of his regard for Elinor perhaps assisted her penetration; but she really felt assured of his worth: and even that quietness of manner, which militated against all her established ideas of what a young man's address ought to be, was no longer uninteresting when she knew his heart to be warm and his temper affectionate.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
In Darcy's presence she dared not mention Wickham's name; but Elizabeth instantly comprehended that he was uppermost in her thoughts; and the various recollections connected with him gave her a moment's distress; but exerting herself vigorously to repel the ill-natured attack, she presently answered the question in a tolerably detached tone.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And I remember, in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood in other parts of the world, having occasion to talk of lying and false representation, it was with much difficulty that he comprehended what I meant, although he had otherwise a most acute judgment.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He had gone, had done even more good than he had foreseen, had been useful to more than his first plan had comprehended, and was now able to congratulate himself upon it, and to feel that in performing a duty, he had secured agreeable recollections for his own mind.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
