COMPREHENDED

appreciated, apprehended, comprehended

(adjective) fully understood or grasped; “dangers not yet appreciated”; “these apprehended truths”; “a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

comprehended

simple past tense and past participle of comprehend

Adjective

comprehended (not comparable)

Understood.

Included; comprised; contained.

Source: Wiktionary


COMPREHEND

Com`pre*hend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Comprehended; p. pr. & vb. n. Comprehending.] Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.

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