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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  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}.

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