comprehend

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Meaning

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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

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

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I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple. Ignatius of Antioch

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Robertson Davies

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. Ludwig van Beethoven

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves. Benjamin Tucker

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. Harry Emerson Fosdick

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