資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Comprehend \Com`pre*hend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Comprehended};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Comprehending}.] [L. comprehendere,
   comprehensum; com- + prehendere to grasp, seize; prae before
   + hendere (used only in comp.). See {Get}, and cf.
   {Comprise}.]
   1. To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states
      comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

            Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in
            a measure.                            --Is. xl. 12.

   2. To take in or include by construction or implication; to
      comprise; to imply.

            Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion.
                                                  --Hobbes.

            And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly
            comprehended in this saying.          --Rom. xiii.
                                                  9.

   3. To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to
      apprehend the meaning of; to understand.

            At a loss to comprehend the question. --W. Irwing.

            Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend.
                                                  --Job. xxxvii.
                                                  5.

   Syn: To contain; include; embrace; comprise; inclose; grasp;
        embody; involve; imply; apprehend; imagine; conceive;
        understand. See {Apprehend}.